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Lockheed Martin gets\u00a0$212 million worth contract for Japan’s\u00a0Aegis combat system<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US Navy has awarded a $212 million worth contract to Lockheed Martin for additional work on the development and integration of the Aegis systems for Japan.<\/p>\n

The contract is for incorporation of remaining Baseline J7 scope in support of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.<\/p>\n

Aegis, which stands for Advanced Electronic Guided Interceptor System, is integrated into ships. This automated and powerful radar weapon system can track targets — sometimes more than 100 at once, according to the US Navy<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lockheed Martin<\/a><\/span> Rotary and Mission Systems is the primary contractor for the Aegis Weapon System and Multi-Mission Signal Processors.<\/p>\n

The contract will include full operational capability at the development test sites, execution of J7 Baseline development and integration activities, integration of Japanese domestic ship systems, in-country integrated test team support and provision of technical manuals and logistics activities.<\/p>\n

In January, Japan increased its military budget for this year to $47 billion in fiscal 2019, the highest ever.<\/p>\n

Initially used by the United States Navy, Aegis is now used also by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Spanish Navy, Royal Norwegian Navy, Republic of Korea Navy and Royal Australian Navy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lockheed Martin gets\u00a0$212 million worth contract for Japan’s\u00a0Aegis combat system The US Navy has awarded a $212 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,46,324,90,290,7,63],"class_list":["post-5893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-defense","tag-japan","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-navy","tag-sea","tag-u-s","tag-weapons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Aegis_MDA.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1x3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}