Ultra Electronics scores US Navy contracts

Defence group Ultra Electronics has announced that its USSI business, based in Indiana, US, has received US Navy contracts for sonobuoys through its joint venture with the Sparton Corporation that supplies all sonobuoys to the US Navy.

Defence group Ultra Electronics has announced that its USSI business, based in Indiana, US, has received US Navy contracts for sonobuoys through its joint venture with the Sparton Corporation that supplies all sonobuoys to the US Navy.

Under the contract, which is worth over $53m, production is scheduled to take place over a two-year period and is expected to be completed in January 2015.

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