WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. company Raytheon has received a contract modification to upgrade electronics on a U.S. Navy San Antonio class amphibious transport dock warship.
The vessel is to be built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.
Raytheon said Friday it will provide the ship's engineering control system, magnetic signature control system, ship control system and navigation data distribution system among other devices.
The contract is worth $55.1 million.
The Raytheon Shipboard Wide Area Network is at the electronic center of the Navy's San Antonio class expeditionary warfare ships, with Raytheon's SWAN system providing digital communications among both crew users and shipboard systems along with a redundant network computer architecture.
Unlike previous generations of naval warships, whose connected shipboard systems utilized dedicated cabling and isolated networks, Raytheon's SWAN integrates shipboard systems centrally into a single survivable network, the company said.
