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EDO Receives $4 Million Contract from Northrop Grumman
June 28, 2005
EDO Corporation
EDO Corporation has been awarded a $4 million contract from Northrop Grumman Corporation for continued production of acoustic modules for the Light Weight Wide Aperture Array sonar system on Virginia-class attack submarines. This latest order covers production of four ship-sets of sonar-array subassemblies.
Under this follow-on contract, EDO will take fiber-optic acoustic-sensor assemblies supplied by Northrop Grumman's Navigation Systems Division and integrate them into large multi-sensor acoustic modules that conform to the hull of the submarine. Fiber-optic equipment provides noise-free data transmission and significantly reduces weight.
"Undersea warfare has been a core market segment for EDO since the 1950's," said James M. Smith, EDO's chief executive officer. "We have been involved in the U.S. Navy's Wide Aperture Array Program on submarines for more than two decades

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