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Navy/USMC

BAE To Design Radio System For DDGs 113 and 114

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, December 9th, 2011

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BAE Systems has been selected by the Navy to design and install onboard radio communication and network capability for two new ships in the Navy’s class of Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) destroyers. The $37 million contract covers engineering, production integration, logistics, crew training and configuration management for the DDG-113 and DDG-114. The equipment will include multi-spectrum radio sets, antenna systems and baseband switching, as well as data-link modems and message distribution services. BAE has provided onboard communications for the Aegis Combat…

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