L-3 to provide sensor systems for Navy, Coast Guard vessels

May 2 (UPI) -- L-3 Communications has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for advanced sensor systems.

The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $12.6 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, which is a modification to a previous Pentagon award that only adjusts the contract costs.

The contract from Naval Sea Systems Command enables L-3 Communications to provide "Mk 20 electro-optical sensor systems, radar cross-section kits, engineering support services and depot spares for both the Navy and Coast Guard," according to the Defense Department.

The Navy said that the Mk 20 electro-optical sensor system supports a major component of the Mk 34 gun weapon system on the Navy's Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers and Ticonderosa-class guided missile cruisers, as well as the Coast Guard's offshore patrol cutters.

Work on the contract will occur in Northampton, Mass., and is expected to be complete in November 2019, the Pentagon said.

The total amount of the contract will be obligated to L-3 Communications at time of award. The funds will be allocated from Navy fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion funds, including Navy and Coast Guard fiscal 2018 other procurement funds.

The obligated funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.