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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Northrop Grumman Receives $56.2 Million Contract to Expand Targeting Capabilities for Joint STARS

E-8C J-StarsNorthrop Grumman Corporation has received a $56.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide an Enhanced Land/Maritime Mode (ELMM) mobile target precision tracking and engagement capability for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft fleet. This contract is an outgrowth of the successful DARPA Affordable Moving Surface Target Engagement (AMSTE) program demonstrated in recent exercises and includes an Advanced Radar Mode (ARM) upgrade to the Joint STARS sensor.

The E-8C Joint STARS is the world's most advanced wide-area airborne ground-surveillance, targeting and battle-management system. It detects, locates, classifies, tracks and targets hostile ground movements, communicating real-time information through secure data links with joint and component command and control elements.

"The ELMM/AMSTE/ARM upgrade is a significant operational enhancement that will improve overall battlefield response and tactical decision-making," said Dave Nagy, vice president of Northrop Grumman's Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance programs. "We've successfully demonstrated this targeting capability for the service's global positioning system (GPS)-guided Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) during live drops at the Eglin and China Lake ranges in 2003 and during the Resultant Fury demonstration in the Pacific in 2004. Now this capability is being installed throughout the whole Joint STARS fleet."

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