The US Navy has awarded a $19.3m subcontract to electronics manufacturing services company, Sparton Corporation to fabricate sonobuoys for the navy.

Sonobuoys are small expendable sonar systems that are dropped from aircraft and ships to conduct anti-submarine warfare or underwater acoustic research.

Under the subcontract, Sparton will develop subassemblies for more than 7,320 air-deployable active receiver (ADAR) AN/SSQ-Q-101A sonobuoys to support US Naval anti-submarine forces.

These sonobuoys are A-size, expendable, acoustic signal receive arrays which can locate and track the targets with on-board digital signal processing and a Sparton digital compass for bearing determination.

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The work will be carried out at Sparton’s facility in DeLeon Springs, Florida, and is expected to be complete by May 2011.

This subcontract is a portion of ERAPSCO, a joint venture between the companies Sparton Electronics and Undersea Sensor Systems and is serving as the prime contractor for the procurement of ADAR units for the navy.