Lockheed Martin and DRS Technologies Inc. have delivered the 4,000th AN/UYQ-70 display system to the U.S. Navy. Installed in submarines, surface vessels and aircraft, this system provides processing and display capabilities for onboard combat and acoustic systems.

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The AN/UYQ-70 brings enhanced, real-time processing, secure target detection and analysis capabilities--as well as target motion and situation analysis, to a single console. Since it was competitively awarded in 1994, the Lockheed Martin-DRS team has supported the ongoing program, delivering AN/UYQ-70 units as an upgrade under an open-architecture business model called the Acoustic Rapid COTS(commercial off the shelf) Insertion (ARCI) program. The ARCI program provides common sonar systems within an open-systems architecture that employs commercial computing technology. This has proven to be a successful path for cost-effective, processing upgrades at two-year intervals, or less.

AN/UYQ-70 display systems currently are on board Virginia, Seawolf, Los Angeles and Ohio class submarines, Aegis-equipped cruisers and destroyers, aircraft carriers, and the E-2C Hawkeye aircraft. The AN/UYQ-70 is also installed on LPD, LHD and LHA-type amphibious ships and on ground mobile units.