The Navy gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a $7.1 million contract to provide a ship-wide communications network for three new guided missile destroyers (DDG).

Under the agreement, Boeing will support installation and checkout of the Fiber Optic Data Multiplex System (FODMS) for DDG 110 (Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC]) and complete the design of the Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System (GEDMS) for DDGs 111 and 112 (General Dynamics Corp. [GD]).