Northrop Grumman to supply new US Navy destroyers

Northrop Grumman has won a contract from Bath Iron Works to supply commercial-off-the-shelf surface search radars for new Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) Class destroyers. It will supply the Decca BridgeMaster E naval radars for the next 19 ships in the class, replacing the SPS-64 radars installed on the earlier DDG 51 Class ships. The first installation is scheduled to take place on USS Mason (DDG 87), which will be commissioned in 2002. The contract also includes application engineering, installation, technical support, commissioning and crew training. The company currently supplies the steering machinery and control systems, the AN/WSN-7 ring laser gyro ships inertial navigator and the Doppler sonar velocity logs.