Ship Electronic Systems Integrator News

Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract to provide the electronic systems and integration for the next three ships in the LPD 17 class of ships. The $218 million subcontract from Northrop Grumman Ship Systems extends Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems' (IDS) current role as the ship electronic systems integrator for the LPD 17 class, the U.S. Navy's newest fleet of expeditionary warfare ships.

Northrop Grumman Corporation's Electronic Systems sector has appointed Martin P. Simoni site director of its electronics integration facility located on Baltimore, Md. The Ocean Springs organization, part of the Advanced Naval Platforms group within Electronic Systems, designs, integrates and tests ship electronic systems and primarily serves the Gulf Coast shipbuilding industry as a ship electronic systems integrator. The Ocean Springs facility currently has 50 employees, including systems and software engineering personnel, and maintains a limited manufacturing capability for shipboard spares and repairs. Simoni, who joined the company in 1987 as an engineer…