BAE takes shipboard comms contract

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) transits the Pacific Ocean.

BAE has been awarded a contract to support communications for 13 Navy warships.

The nine-year contract, which has an initial value of $28.4 million and a total value of $187.4 million, is for systems engineering, production and integration for 12 Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers and one DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer, according to a BAE news release.