Navy awards $619M to Raytheon for SPY-6 radar backfits for destroyers - Breaking Defense

The US Navy has awarded Raytheon a $619 million contract modification that will begin the process of backfitting numerous Arleigh Burke-class destroyers with the company’s premier missile defense radar, SPY-6.

“SPY-6 is the most advanced naval radar in the world providing unprecedented integrated air and missile defense capabilities,” said Kim Ernzen, president of naval power at Raytheon Missiles & Defense. “Integration into the U.S. fleet is well underway with SPY-6 operating on the Navy’s first, new Flight III destroyer. This contract enables the radar to be added to more ships including the first of existing Flight IIA destroyers that will be modernized.”

The new contract award, announced March 29, is part of a larger deal, with a cumulative value of $3.2 billion, the Navy and Raytheon inked last year to outfit the fleet with all variants of its SPY-6 missile defense radar.