Lockheed Awards $11-M Contract to L-3 to Provide Cryptographic Unit for Mobile User Objective System

NEW YORK, Oct. 5, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has awarded L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) Systems-East (L-3 CS-East) division a contract to design and develop the TRANSEC COMSEC Unit (TCU) for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS). MUOS is the next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system that will provide significantly improved and assured voice, video and data communications for the mobile warfighter.

Lockheed Martin Space Systems of Sunnyvale, CA, is the prime contractor and system integrator for MUOS, which will replace the current narrowband tactical satellite communications system known as the Ultra High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) system. The U.S. Navy's Communications Satellite Program Office, based in San Diego, CA, is the government agency responsible for acquiring MUOS and narrowband satellite communications for the Department of Defense (DoD).

L-3 said the initial contract is worth approximately $11 million for delivery of the first two flight units and a spare flight unit in 2007. L-3 CS-East will provide the crypto units to Lockheed Martin facilities in Newtown, PA, where MUOS satellites will be developed. Three production options, if exercised, would be valued at an additional $6 million.

The MUOS program expands L-3’s space-based cryptographic products to a new platform, said Greg Roberts, president of L-3 CS-East. He said the contract allows L-3 to leverage critical internal technical investments that have been made to position itself for the U.S. Government's Crypto Modernization Initiative.

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