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[February 2004]
EDO Follows Up with Attack Sub Contract
After recent good news on the contracts front, EDO Corporation (New York, USA) has followed up with announcement of an award of a US$2.2 million contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation for continued production of acoustic modules for the Light Weight Wide Aperture Array sonar system on the Virginia-class attack submarine. This latest order covers production of two shipsets of sonar array subassemblies.
In this follow-on contract, EDO will take fibre optic acoustic sensor assemblies supplied by Northrop Grumman and integrate them into large multi-sensor acoustic modules that conform to the hull of the submarine. The work will be performed by EDO's Electro-Ceramic Products unit in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
"We have played a key role in the U.S. Navy's Wide Aperture Array Program on submarines since the early 1980s," said James Smith, EDO's CEO. "The award indicates the continued high confidence and trust that Northrop Grumman and the Navy have in EDO's capabilities to meet the demanding requirements on sonar-array hardware in the submarine operating environment."
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