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State Department Approves $860.4 Million Deal With Spain For Five AEGIS Systems

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, June 29th, 2018

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The State Department has approved a $860.4 million deal with Spain for five AEGIS weapons combat system for its ship fleet.The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress of the foreign military sales (FMS) on June 26.Spain has also requested six shipsets for Digital Signal Processing, five shipsets for Amazon [AMZN] Web Services computing infrastructure, five Operational Readiness Test Systems, five MK99 MOD 15 Fire Control Systems, five MK41 Baseline VII vertical launching systems, two All-Up-Round MK 54 Mod 0 lightweight torpedoes…

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