
The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $23 million contract on Sept. 28 for systems engineering and software integration for the Integrated Combat System (ICS), but the award could ultimately be worth over $1 billion. The ICS is the Navy’s planned combat management system of systems to implement a unified combat environment across all surface ships. This would make it easier to move sailors from one ship to another, without having to be trained on sometimes significantly different hardware and…