Essex Awarded $2.4 Million Defense Contract

COLUMBIA, Md., August 27 -- Essex Corp. announced it has received a multiphase contract to develop advanced optical signal processing capabilities of high-resolution hyperfine wavelength division multiplex technology for electronic warfare and signal intelligence applications for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Analog Optical Signal Processing program.

Phase I of the contract, for $105,000, includes application and architecture studies and a hardware demonstration. Contract options for phases II and III will, when funded, include system prototype design, fabrication, environmental testing and field trials.
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