
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded BAE Systems a $4.6 million contract for a program to allow submarines to detect other submarines at longer distances, the company said Tuesday.The contract covers the Mobile Offboard Clandestine Communications and Approach (MOCCA) program which aims to reach a breakthrough capability for extended range submarine detection and precision target tracking. DARPA is pursuing this because adversary submarine quieting technology “challenges passive anti-submarine warfare sonar detection range and performance,” the agency said on…