WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The company, doing business as L-3 KEO, was awarded the $20,138,900 contract "for MK 20 Electro-Optical Sensor Systems, radar cross-section kits, engineering support services, and depot spares," the release said.
The sensors are a "major component" of the MK 34 systems used by all three of the vessels cited by the Defense Department. Among other applications, the spares will enable check-sighting, identification of counter-battery targets and identification of short-range surface targets, the release stated.
The contract includes purchases by Japan (21 percent of the total) under the Pentagon’s Foreign Military Sales Program the release noted,
Work will be performed in the US states of Massachusetts and Vermont and is expected to be completed by November 2018.
