Sweden’s Saab Monday said it signed a contract worth about $24 million with Lockheed Martin [LMT] Canada, to upgrade the 2D radar, Sea Giraffe 150 HC for the modernization of the Canadian navy’s Halifax-class frigates.
“We are very pleased that Lockheed Martin Canada and the Canadian navy have selected Saab’s radar for this modernization program,” Lennart Joelsson, business unit manager at Saab Microwave Systems, said in a statement.
Deliveries are planned for 2010-2017.
Saab has been a radar provider to the Canadian navy since the early 1990s.
The contract received is an upgrade and modification of the existing Sea Giraffe 150 HC, and will secure a high level of operational availability as well as new and improved functions of the radar for years to come, the company said.
The radar upgrade is part of a larger Combat Systems Integration contract, awarded to Lockheed Martin Canada in 2008, that will ultimately provide a new command and control system, radars, tactical data links, electronic support measures and other warfare capabilities for the Halifax-class frigates.