Ball Aerospace Awarded Stalker Contract to Protect U.S. Navy Ships
BOULDER, Colo.—Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a $23.9 million dollarfirm-fixed-price contract for the Stalker long-range electro-optical infrared laser sensor system (SLREOSS) under a contract to the NATO Seasparrow Project Office. The contract in-cludes $10 million in options for additional work.
The contract effort includes Stalker transition to production of the current Stalker de-velopmental prototype design and subsequent fabrication, test and installation of production as-sets. This effort includes both the Stalker director mount (DM) and the independent mount (IM) configuration (which can be deployed on ships not having the Seasparrow missile sys-tem). Options include spare system components, field support and sustaining engineering.
The Stalker system will significantly enhance the Navy's ability to detect, classify, identify and determine hostile intent of potential threats to its ships. This includes characterizing the intent of small boats and other surface contacts to give ships additional time to respond. Ball's support to the NATO Seasparrow Project Office spans more than four decades and is the longest continuously running project at Ball Aerospace.