Navy awards Lockheed $1B contract to take point on Integrated Combat System
The award to Lockheed comes at the same time the service is launching its hardware refresh initiative dubbed the Foundry.
The award to Lockheed comes at the same time the service is launching its hardware refresh initiative dubbed the Foundry.
The SPY-1 radar, after first coming online in the 1970s, is used by the US Navy as well as the navies of Australia, Japan, Norway, Spain and South Korea.
Typhon, also called the Mid-Range Capability, is designed to hit targets between the ranges of two other high-profile Army weapons.
Lockheed is in talks with the Navy to potentially expand its presence at the Forge in the coming year.
Formal country-to-country negotiations are expected to begin in the coming weeks, a Lockheed rep said.