Boeing Awarded Additional US Navy Communications Network Design Services Contract Reference: Boeing
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The Boeing Company has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract valued at $42.9 million including options to continue providing communications network design and technical engineering services on guided missile destroyers. The sole-source contract supports the AN/USQ-82 Gigabit Ethernet and Fiber Optic Data Multiplex System (GEDMS/FODMS) program and is a five-year cost-plus, fixed-fee term contract.
This contract is part of the U.S. Navy's effort to build, operate and modernize the DDG-51 class guided missile destroyers. GEDMS also is included in the Aegis weapon system package for various foreign navies.
Boeing has developed a complete information-transfer system that enhances reliability, maintainability and survivability by managing data from the ship's navigation, steering-control, damage-control, machinery-control, combat and internal communications systems. The Data Multiplex System network design replaces the miles of point-to-point cables, signal converters, junction boxes and switchboards associated with conventional cabling on a guided missile destroyer.
