Haifa, Israel. 26 September 2019 . Elbit Systems Ltd. announced today that its subsidiary, Elbit Systems of America LLC, (“Elbit Systems of America”), was awarded a $85 million firm-fixed-priced contract, with no option periods, by the U.S. Navy for the repair of Digital Display Indicator (DDI) systems aboard F/A-18 aircraft. The contract will be performed in Talladega, Alabama over a five-year period.
The DDI is a cockpit display that allows pilots to select, manage and customize the performance of weapons carried by the fighter, and see video images provided by those weapons.