DRS to build displays for U.S. Navy Aegis warships

Engineers at DRS Technologies Inc. of Parsippany, N.J., are supplying additional AN/UYQ-70 Advanced Display Systems and computer peripheral equipment for the U.S. Navy`s Ticonderoga-class (CG-47) cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51). DRS is doing the work under a $12 million contract from Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems in Eagan, Minn. The AN/UYQ-70 is one of the first Navy computer systems built on an open-systems standard architecture. The system is rapidly becoming the standard Navy shipboard combat display system. For more information, contact DRS by phone at 973-898-1500, by fax at 973-898-4730, by post at 5 Sylvan Way, Parsippany, N.J. 07054, or on the World Wide Web at http://www.drs.com/. — J.K.