Raytheon awarded SPY-6 contract for Navy's next-gen ships

By Audrey Decker / April 1, 2022 at 12:42 PM
Raytheon Technologies has been selected to produce SPY-6 radar variants for seven different types of Navy ships. The contract award was announced yesterday for $651 million and the options, if exercised, would bring the value up to $3.2 billion and five years of radar production to equip up to 31 Navy ships with SPY-6 radars, according to Scott Spence, executive director of Raytheon's Naval Radars. The Arleigh Burke-class Flight III destroyer is the contract’s flagship, but Raytheon will equip multiple...

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