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Navy Awards Lockheed Martin $1.5 Billion For MH-60 Cockpits

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, April 9th, 2012

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The Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $1.5 billion contract to provide digital cockpits and integrated mission systems and sensors for the MH-60 Sikorsky-built helicopters. The Navy issued the contract on Thursday for more than 200 of the systems that will be installed on the Romeo and Sierra variants of the MH-60s over a five-year period. The multi-year contract includes 162 cockpits, integrated missions systems and sensors for the MH-60R, which is designed as an anti-surface and anti-submarine warfare…

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