Kingdom of Saudi Arabia selects Northrop Grumman for electronic warfare simulation contract
NewsFebruary 09, 2018
BUFFALO, N.Y. Officials at Northrop Grumman Corp. received a $75 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to deliver Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) support services to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The JTE offers realistic warfighter training and provides a modern, reactive battlespace environment that trains military personnel to identify and counter enemy missile and artillery threats. It is a robust and ruggedized system that can be relocated and is reactive to aircrew/aircraft for fast-jet, fixed-wing and rotary-wing defensive measures, and can be reprogrammed with new threat parameters.
Northrop Grumman’s JTE is the current U.S. Air Force program of record with 23 systems fielded both domestically and internationally.
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