General Dynamics awarded sensors contract for anti-sub warfare

General Dynamics has been awarded an $18.9 million Navy contract for underwater sensors for anti-submarine warfare.

Under the Office of Naval Research contract, General Dynamics Mission Systems' Maritime and Strategic Systems division will "provide Deep Reliable Acoustic Path Exploitation System (DRAPES) array hardware, design and construction of the DRAPES dummy array, development assistance of deployment procedures and the design modification, and construction and demonstration of three DRAPES arrays deployed in a field configuration with telemetry presented for processing at Naval Ocean Processing Facility (NOPF)," according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.

The contract is schedule for completion by October 2020.

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