Radar & Electronic Warfare
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a $325 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for continued support of the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS). The 2021 contract executes the Total System Support Responsibility (TSSR) program for the E-8C Joint STARS fleet with Northrop Grumman as the prime systems integrator for total support and sustainment to the U.S. Air Force.
 

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EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
Perspecta Inc. announced that its innovative applied research arm, Perspecta Labs, won a prime contract to develop a spectrum access manager for the Department of Defense (DoD) under the National Spectrum Consortium's Spectrum Base Agreement. The contract has a value of $6.2 million and a three-year period of performance.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
L3Harris Technologies has completed a technology demonstration, under a Defense Innovation Unit prototype contract, for the U.S. Space Force satellite communication system to improve communications with the agency’s growing number of satellites.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is working with Leonardo to integrate the Leonardo Seaspray 7500E V2 radar into the centerline radar pod of its MQ-9B SeaGuardian remotely-piloted aircraft system (RPAS).
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
Honeywell, with funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is creating the next generation of inertial sensor technology that will one day be used in both commercial and defense navigation applications.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
Japan’s Coast Guard completed flight testing of Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S), a Raytheon Technologies business, maritime surveillance technologies onboard a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) SeaGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). RI&S provided its SeaVue Expanded Mission Capability (XMC) radar and AN/DAS-4 Multi-spectral Targeting System for the tests.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Quartz Model 5553 3U VPX board, based on the Xilinx® Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC Gen 3, provides full sub-6 GHz direct-RF I/O support and greater flexibility with more decimation and interpolation options. The Model 5553 is ideal for 5G and LTE wireless, SIGINT, EW, communications and radar applications. Complementing the RFSoC’s on-chip resources are the 5553’s sophisticated clocking section for single board and multiboard synchronization, a low-noise front end for RF input and output,16 GBytes of DDR4, a 10 GigE interface, a 40GigE interface, a gigabit serial optical interface capable of supporting dual100 GigE connections and general purpose serial and parallel signal paths to the FPGA.
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LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
A new technology pilot program -- called the 5G Living Lab -- is now operational at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar in San Diego, part of a $4 million initiative funded through the Office of Naval Research and Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific and run by nonprofit concern US Ignite.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
Germany’s Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) has awarded a consortium, or ARGE, consisting of MBDA Deutschland GmbH and Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH a contract to fabricate, integrate, and support testing of a laser weapon demonstrator in the maritime environment.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
HENSOLDT South Africa announced that it has launched its new radar business after acquiring the Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Defense & Security business units of Tellumat at the end of 2020. Together, with the company’s existing radar and other capabilities, these business lines are integrated to form the Radar Business Unit of HENSOLDT South Africa.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
L3Harris Technologies has won a $121 million U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract to build space flight hardware to demonstrate the company’s solution for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
 
The global electronic warfare (EW) market is projected to grow from $17.0 billion in 2020 to $20.9 billion by 2025, a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.2%, according to a new market study from MarketsandMarkets, "The Electronic Warfare Market -- Global Forecast to 2025."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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To aid in this transformation, ADI developed a video shoot onsite at the military hardware extravaganza that is the American Heritage Museum, in Hudson, Massachusetts. The new video -- featuring Sean D'Arcy, Director, Aerospace and Defense, showcases our commitment to supporting our customers in both design and longevity.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Defense development technologies and strategies are locked into an international race for dominance, control and security protection. Effective EW (electronic warfare) systems are dependent upon staying ahead of competitive nations in controlling and protecting data acquisition, information processing, and transmission within the battlefield arena.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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