U.S. Navy Awards Lockheed Martin Nearly $10 Million to Design New Surface Ship Electronic Warfare System

U.S. Navy Awards Lockheed Martin Nearly $10 Million to Design New Surface Ship
Electronic Warfare System

SYRACUSE, N.Y., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy recently selected
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to provide its next-generation of electronic
warfare (EW) systems for surface ships, which will significantly improve the
Navy's ability to detect threats to the fleet.

Under an initial $9.9 million contract award, the company will produce a
preliminary design for the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program
(SEWIP) Block 2 Upgrade by June 2010. The contract includes options, if
exercised, totaling nearly $167 million.

Under SEWIP, the Navy is pursuing an evolutionary series of enhancements to
its SLQ-32 EW system. This contract is part of a series of block upgrades
intended to provide technological advances and add functional capabilities
incrementally.

Lockheed Martin will provide a modular solution for Block 2, based on its
Integrated Common Electronics Warfare System, demonstrated at sea last summer.
This approach uses commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics and provides
the Navy with the latest surface ship EW capabilities, as well as enhanced
flexibility to upgrade the technology to address emerging threats.

"This is a proven solution that will improve the surface navy's electronic
warfare system," said Carl Bannar, vice president and general manager of the
Lockheed Martin Radar Systems business in Syracuse, N.Y. "By choosing Lockheed
Martin in this competition, the Navy has endorsed our technical approach,
which includes COTS components for proven cost savings and ease of
maintenance."

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company
that employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the
research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of
advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported
2008 sales of $42.7 billion.

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Mark Wesel of Lockheed Martin, +1-315-456-1701, mark.wesel@lmco.com