Lockheed to build radar systems for Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft under $172M contract

Lockheed gets $172M radar contract from Grumman

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Lockheed Martin has signed a $171.8 million contract with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems to build four airborne early warning radar systems.

All 75 planned U.S. Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft will receive the radar systems, which will allow U.S. and allied forces to detect and track airborne and cruise missile threats.

Two engineering-development models and four preproduction radar systems are already in flight and qualification testing.

Lockheed Martin has produced several generations of airborne early warning systems for aircraft over four decades, including those currently aboard E-2C Hawkeyes and Hawkeye 2000 aircraft.