
The Navy on Thursday awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $56 million combat system engineering support contract over two other bidders for the Ship Self-Defense System (SSDS). The SDSS is a combat system integrates sensors and weapons to defend various non-Aegis supported ships like carriers and amphibious ship classes. The Navy said the contract was competitively procured with three offers received, but did not disclose the other two vendors. Raytheon [RTN] is the prime contractor and systems integrator for the SDSS…