UTC Aerospace Inks 5-year Deal To Provide Acoustic Windows For Naval Submarines

(RTTNews) - UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of diversified conglomerate United Technologies Corp. (UTX), said it was awarded a five-year contract to provide high frequency acoustic windows for submarines for the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center.

The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract covers deliveries through 2020 to the U.S. Navy. The work on the contract will be performed by the Engineered Polymer Products (EPP) team, which is part of UTC's aerostructures business.

The contract covers acoustic windows for four classes of U.S. Navy submarines. EPP has delivered 67 acoustic windows for all classes of U.S. Navy submarines since 2003.

An acoustic window is an acoustically transparent housing that surrounds the sonar transducer array used for detection, navigation and ranging. The window permits acoustic energy to pass through with minimal sound transmission interference.