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Lockheed Martin Sees Aegis Baseline 10 Backward Compatible, Expects HELIOS PDR in 2019

Lockheed Martin Sees Aegis Baseline 10 Backward Compatible, Expects HELIOS PDR in 2019
An Mk 41 VLS launches an SM-6 off the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] officials said they are looking to backfit some features of Aegis Baseline 10 on to earlier models of destroyers and cruisers and separately expect to put its HELIOS system through a production design review (PDR) this year. Jim Sheridan, head of Lockheed Martin’s Naval Combatants Group, noted while most of Baseline 10 integrates the new Raytheon [RTN] AN/SPY-6(V) air and missile defense radar, the company is trying to integrate it with older Aegis ships. The company is…

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