Northrop Grumman Corporation has marked a significant milestone in the development of advanced surface warfare radars with the successful live outdoor testing of the company’s S-band radar testbed.
Northrop Grumman successfully conducted live outdoor testing at the company’s Linthicum test range, tracking aircraft and other targets of opportunity with its S-band radar testbed, while demonstrating key [...]
NGC Successfully Demos Naval S-Band Radar Testbed
on 21. Jun, 2010 in Northrop Grumman, sensor
UK MoD: $53 M to ITT for Night Vision Goggles
on 17. Jun, 2010 in Contracts, UK MoD, sensor
Technology enables huge improvements to the infantryman’s capability: read also Colonel Alec Bain’s article for RUSI here
ITT Corporation has received a $53 million order from the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD) for head-mounted night vision systems (HMNVS) that provide ground-based soldiers with superior performance during nighttime operations. To date, this is ITT’s largest order [...]
SCANTER Ground Surveillance Radar: Reliable operations in difficult environments
on 15. Jun, 2010 in sensor, site protection
Terma has developed a new SCANTER Ground Surveillance Radar (GSR) which is specifically designed to operate reliably in difficult environments, e.g. desert locations with high ambient temperatures. The radar operates reliably in rain, salt spray, sand, hail, direct sun, and other harsh usage conditions, such as strong vibrations, extreme temperatures, and wet or dusty conditions.
The [...]
ThalesRaytheonSystems to Modernize US Army AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel Radars
on 14. Jun, 2010 in Contracts, Raytheon, Thales Group, US DoD, sensor
ThalesRaytheonSystems has been awarded a $21.8 million contract by the U.S. Army to upgrade multiple AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel air defense radar systems. This award is an option to the existing upgrade contract originally awarded in June 2007.
The contract will upgrade the U.S. Army Sentinel radar transmitters, receivers and exciters and increase functional capabilities such as faster [...]
Boeing Delivers New Gen Phased Array Antennas
on 08. Jun, 2010 in Boeing, sensor
The phased array antennas will provide net-enabled operations through high-speed line-of-sight communications and data transported over a common data link (CDL) radio system between the Zumwalt-class ship and various airborne platforms.
The Boeing Company has delivered the first production set of phased array antennas for the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Zumwalt-class destroyers. The set was [...]
US Navy’s Dual Band Radar Achieves X- and S-Band Milestone
on 05. May, 2010 in Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, US DoD, sensor
For the first time, the U.S. Navy has successfully tracked targets with a multiband radar featuring a common radar suite controller.
This milestone, which took place at the Navy’s Engineering Test Center, Wallops Island, Va., was accomplished through the use of an engineering development model of the Dual Band Radar (DBR) developed by the Navy’s prime [...]
US Navy Awards NGC 41.4 M$ as part of a five-year 281.5 M$ contract for Shipboard Multimission Radar Systems
on 04. May, 2010 in Contracts, Northrop Grumman, US DoD, sensor
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a follow-on order from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command for additional AN/SPQ-9B shipboard radar systems.
Under the fixed-price $41.4 million contract option, Northrop Grumman’s Maritime Systems facility in Melville, N.Y., will supply six radar shipsets, including the third radar of a three-system procurement for the Royal Australian Navy’s Air Warfare Destroyer, [...]
