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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Navy taps Exelis for 42 airborne electronic warfare systems to equip carrier-based jet fighter-bomber aircraft

F/A-18 Super HornetElectronic warfare (EW) experts at the Exelis Electronic Systems segment in Clifton, N.J., will provide the U.S. Navy with 42 sophisticated EW systems designed to protect Navy combat aircraft from incoming radar-guided missiles.

Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., announced a $91.7 million contract award to Exelis to build 42 AN/ALQ-214(V)4 on-board jammer systems for the Navy's F/A-18C/D and F/A-18E/F Hornet and Super Hornet carrier-based strike fighters.

The AN/ALQ-214(V)4/5 is an electronic jammer component of the integrated defensive electronic counter measures system (IDECM), which comes to the Navy from a joint venture of Exelis and BAE Systems.

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