Lockheed Enhancing USN’s Periscope Imaging

In a contract potentially valued at more than $1 billion, an integrated submarine imaging systems will provide U.S. Navy submarine crews with high-resolution digital visual imaging, infrared search, and digital image management.
By AM Staff
March 26, 2026
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Periscope searching a sea of digital data.

The U.S. Navy aims to improve submarine crews’ situational awareness with greater surveillance capabilities, including the ability to share video with combat teams.

 

Lockheed Martin will engineer and produce an integrated submarine imaging system for new-construction and in-service submarines under a new U.S. Navy contract valued at $478.36 million. The 10-year contract - through March 2036 - includes options that if fulfilled would bring the total cumulative value of the order to $1.19 billion.

The U.S. Navy aims for Lockheed to update periscope systems on its Los Angeles-, Seawolf-, Ohio-, and Virginia-class submarines.

The integrated submarine imaging system (ISIS) will update USN submarine periscopes and replace current optical paths with all-weather, high-resolution digital visual imaging, infrared search, and digital image management.

The ISIS technology was largely developed by Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems with Kollmorgen Electro Optical.

The objective is to improve submarine crews’ situational awareness with greater surveillance capabilities compared to older, manual periscopes, including the ability to share video with combat teams.

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