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State Department Approves Sale of Sub-Detecting System To Australia

State Department Approves Sale of Sub-Detecting System To Australia
The Military Sealift Command ocean surveillance ship USNS Impeccable (T-AGOS-23) on March 9, 2009. It is the type of ship that deploys the SURTASS submarine detecting system for the U.S. Navy. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The State Department this week approved a potential $207 million Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Expeditionary (SURTASS-E) mission systems for Vessels of Opportunity (VOO) to Australia . The DoD’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the sale on May 4. Australia’s request includes the SURTASS-E for VOO as well as a shore processing mission system, a spare SURTASS passive acoustic array; containers; communications parts and various training and support equipment and services. The SURTASS…

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