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Contracts - Awards | L3 Communications | Sensors - Aquatic | Support & Maintenance | USA

$49.1M to Support, Repair Towed Sonar Arrays

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L-3 Communications Corp.'s Ocean Systems Division in Sylmar, CA received a $49.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract to support, repair, and upgrade the TB-23/BQ thinline towed array system and support equipment. Towed array sonars are kind of like Christmas lights, except each light is a sonar emitter. They trail in the water behind moving ships, which accept the data they generate and collate each emitter's data into a powerful underwater picture....

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