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BAE to support U.S. Navy’s comms, electronics systems

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161011-N-JI086-010 BLACK SEA (Oct. 11, 2016) Cmdr. Robert Round, a senior Navy meteorology and oceanography officer, works alongside his team during U.S. European Command’s computer-assisted exercise, Austere Challenge 17 aboard the USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20). Mount Whitney (LCC 20) is underway conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations to engage with key allies and partners in the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Ford Williams/Released)

BAE Systems has been awarded a $41.3 million Navy contract to support communications and electronics systems.

Under the contract, with the Naval Air Warfare Center — Aircraft Division’s Special Communications Mission Solutions Division, BAE will provide “design, development, customization, fabrication, integration, test and evaluation, installation, certification, maintenance and upgrade, logistic, and life cycle support of new and/or existing communication-electronic platforms, equipment/systems and subsystems,” according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.

The contract is scheduled for completion by December 2018.

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Michael Peck is a correspondent for Defense News and a columnist for the Center for European Policy Analysis. He holds an M.A. in political science from Rutgers University. Find him at theuncommondefense.com. His email is mikedefense1@gmail.com.