BAE to provide LCS guns, coms

BAE Systems will provide the external communications and primary gun systems for 10 littoral combat ships to be built by Austal USA of Mobile, Ala. BAE, which runs a shipyard in Mobile, will build the 57-mm gun systems used to defend against aerial, surface or ground threats. BAE will also be building radio and antenna systems and other types of specialized equipment and hardware for ship communications. The work will be done at BAE facilities in California, Maryland, Kentucky, Minnesota and Sweden. (Source: Mobile Press-Register, 04/15/11) Gulf Coast note: BAE Systems also has operations in Gautier, Miss., and Fort Walton Beach, Fla.