Boeing building system for Navy contract

The Boeing Co.’s Huntington Beach Command, Control and Communications Networks division will be designing and producing an information transfer system for a new $14.6-million U.S. Navy contract.

The information transfer system, Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System, controls mission-critical capabilities on guided missile destroyers, according to a release from Boeing.

Boeing will retrofit the system on three U.S. warships and three foreign navy vessels. This contract, awarded by the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, is a continuation of Boeing’s 35 years of working with the Navy.

— Britney Barnes