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HII Wins Contract To Incorporate SPY-6 AMDR Radar On DDG-51 Destroyer

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HII Wins Contract To Incorporate SPY-6 AMDR Radar On DDG-51 Destroyer
AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar array at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii. (Photo: Raytheon)

The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] an unspecified fixed-price-incentive-firm target contract modification on Tuesday to incorporate Flight III baseline on to the future DDG-125 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.Flight III will incorporate the SPY-6 air and missile defense radar (AMDR), upgrade the electric power and cooling capacity, and other associated changes. The SPY-6 is a Gallium-Nitride-based radar designed to increase the range, sensitivity, and discrimination accuracy compared to the SPY-1s on existing DDG-51s.Incorporating the SPY-6 AMDR requires re-engineering…

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