{"id":34755,"date":"2023-05-04T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T19:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/u-s-state-department-oks\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T19:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T19:37:34","slug":"u-s-state-department-oks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/u-s-state-department-oks\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Department OKs potential sale of sonar system to Australia -Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211;     The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of a sonar system and related equipment to Australia in a deal valued at up to $207 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said Lockheed Martin was the prime contractor for the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Expeditionary mission systems for Vessels of Opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The proposed sale will improve Australia\u2019s capability to meet current and future maritime threats by providing tactical platforms with the detection and cueing of enemy submarines,&#8221; the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Eric Beech in Washington; editing by Costas Pitas)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/u-s-state-department-oks\/file-photo-aerial-view-of-the-pentagon-is-seen-in-9\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430TW-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430TW-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of a sonar system and related equipment to Australia in a deal valued at up to $207 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The Pentagon said Lockheed Martin was the prime contractor for the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Expeditionary mission systems for Vessels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ430TW-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34757,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34755\/revisions\/34757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}