Northrop to build more LCS modules

BETHPAGE, N.Y. -- Northrop Grumman has received a $25.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy for additional Littoral Combat Ship Mission Modules. The company will deliver three mission module packages - two for surface warfare missions and one for mine countermeasures. The LCS has three primary missions: mine warfare, antisubmarine warfare and surface warfare. Each mission package involves the integration of manned and unmanned systems operating across the air, surface and subsurface domains. To date, Northrop Grumman has delivered two surface warfare mission modules and one mine countermeasures mission module for LCS. The second and third Northrop Grumman-produced mine countermeasures mission module and the third surface warfare mission modules are currently in production. (Source: Northrop Grumman, 09/16/13) Gulf Coast note: The LCS Independence-class ships are built in Mobile, Ala., by Austal USA.