
L3Harris Technologies [LHX] expects the U.S. Navy to begin fielding the company's Shipboard Panoramic Electro-Optic/Infrared (SPEIR) system in 2027--operations that will begin with an Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyer. "There is a DDG that's designated to receive the SPEIR system, and it will be integrated into the Aegis combat system," Jon Rambeau, president of L3Harris Integrated Mission Systems, told reporters on Wednesday in advance of next week's Navy League Sea-Air-Space conference. "If you think of some of the EO/IR capabilities that…