AN/SLQ-32 electronic warfare suite

The Air Transport Rack sized processors were supplied by ROLM Mil-Spec Computers in San Jose, California.

[8] The initial procurement process was built around a “design to price” concept in which the final delivery cost per system was fixed in the contract.

After initial deployment of the system, naval roles began to change requiring ships to operate much closer to shore in denser signal environments.

With experience gained working with the SLQ-32, coupled with improvements to the hardware and software, technicians and operators gradually overcame the initial problems.

Designated the AN/SLY-2, AIEWS reached the prototype stage by 1999, but funding was withdrawn in April 2002 due to ballooning costs and constant delays in the projects development.

[12] As of November 2023, SLQ-32(V)7 (SEWIP Block 3) is undergoing low-rate initial production and being retrofitted on Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, replacing their existing SLQ-32 equipment.

AN/SLQ-32(V)3 aboard USS Lake Erie .
AN/SLQ-32(V)1 aboard USS Bowen .
AN/SLQ-32(V)2 aboard USS Donald B. Beary .
(V)5 suite aboard PFG-1112 , consisting of a compact (V)2 (top) and Sidekick jammer (bottom).
SEWIP Block 2, part of the SLQ-32(V)6, aboard USS Porter .
AN/SLQ-32 console aboard USS Iowa , 1984.
AN/SLQ-32(V)7 engineering development model.