WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Leidos Innovations has received more than $7-million contract to provide hardware for the US Navy's surface ship undersea warfare combat system, the Department of Defense said in a press release.
"Leidos Innovations Corp., Gaithersburg, Maryland, is being awarded a $7,161,834 modification to previously awarded contract to exercise the option for spares and hardware in support of the Navy’s AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 surface ship undersea warfare systems," the release said on Thursday.
The Defense Department said the surface ship undersea warfare combat system has the capabilities to search, detect, localize and track undersea contacts as well as to "engage and evade submarines, mine-like small objects and torpedo threats."
Work under the contract will be performed in the US state of Virginia and is expected to be completed by July 2018, the Defense Department said.
