Radar Warning Receiver Contract

BAE Systems received a $37 million production contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide 41 AN/ALR-56M radar warning receiver systems, which will be used aboard new C-130J aircraft for the Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps. Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia is the contracting agency. All production, test and delivery work will take place at BAE Systems’ Greenlawn, N.Y., facility. The production contract runs through 2009. BAE has produced more than 1,200 ALR-56M radar warning receivers for United States and several international customers since 1988. The ALR-56M is used on multiple aircraft, including the F-16 and several models of the C-130 used by Italy, Canada and the United Kingdom.