Channel Technologies Group wins $34.4M contract to produce transducers

Channel Technologies Group has won a $34.4 million contract to provide the Navy with TR-343 sonar transducer ship sets.

Channel Technologies Group has won a $34.4 million contract to provide the Navy with TR-343 sonar transducer ship sets.

The TR-343 transducer is part of an integrated surface ship undersea warfare combat system that searches, detects, classifies, localizes and attacks submarine targets, the Defense Department said in a release.

Under the contract, Channel Technologies Group will produce TR-343 transducers and will also support the construction of DDG Arleigh Burke class Navy destroyer ships.

The contract contains foreign military sales to Japan, the Defense Department said.

Two companies bid on this contract.