Lockheed Martin,
Syracuse NY: The Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin a $14.9 million contract to provide post-production support for its AN/TPS-59(V)3 mobile long range air defense radars.
These radars support the Marines' peacetime and wartime operations around the globe, including Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Under the contract Lockheed Martin will provide new row electronics, including transmitters, receivers and power supplies, ensuring that the TPS-59 has state-of-the art technology and improved reliability for both air and tactical ballistic missile defense. The work is expected to be completed by January 2007.
“This contract represents the shared commitment of the Marine Corps and Lockheed Martin to protect U.S. and allied service members serving in harm's way,” said Carl Bannar, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems & Sensor's Radar Systems line of business.
“Lockheed Martin continues to invest in the modernization of the AN/TPS-59, ensuring that the radar will become continuously more capable in performing air and missile defense operations in the global war on terror, and in providing ballistic missile defense for the United States and its allies for many years to come.”
Sixteen AN/TPS-59(V)3 radars continue to operate in theaters around the world. Subsequent upgrades and enhancements
