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L-3 Nabs C4ISR Work For Coast Guard’s Fast Response Cutter

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Friday, February 20th, 2009

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L-3 Communications [LLL] yesterday said that it has received a contract potentially worth over $100 million from Bollinger Shipyards to provide the C4ISR system for the Coast Guard's Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters (FRC). L-3 said the contract win is "strategic." Under the original Deepwater contract between the Coast Guard and Integrated Coast Guard Systems(ICGS), which is a joint venture between Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Northrop Grumman [NOC], awarded in 2002, Lockheed Martin was responsible for designing and delivering all of…

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