Sensors & Electronic Warfare

The program’s goal is to renew France’s capability in electromagnetic signal intelligence, notably the interception of voice radio communications and radar waves.

A Pakistani company has entered the high-altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) business with a platform it believes can sell at one-tenth the cost of systems like Airbus’ Zephyr.

NATO’s first Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) platform, a derivative of the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system, has arrived in Europe, a major milestone for the delayed program.

U.S. DOD Secretary Mark Esper is urging the FCC head to reject Ligado Networks’ license modification request to allow sat frequencies near the GPS band to be used for terrestrial 5G networks.

The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has awarded Leonardo a contract to supply a RAT 31DL air defense radar system, the company says.

Boeing is in the final stages of testing the Multi-Mission Pod (MMP) for P-8A export customers that want to add other intelligence-gathering sensors, including a ground surveillance radar, to the surface vessel- and submarine-hunting aircraft, an executive said Nov. 19.

Aerospace software startup aims to fill close-in air combat and tactical training gap.

Veterans from the former L-3 Communications and Gabelli investment family are moving to piece together a publicly traded C4ISR giant. The timing may be perfect.

Airbus electronic attack Eurofighter proposals join a growing list of European EW projects.

The Kronstadt Group plans to produce about 30 Orion aircraft per year.

Advances in waveform-shifting and digital radars push the Navy to invest in EA-18G modernization.

The sensor is part of an effort to accumulate technology for the Future Fighter. It is sized for demonstration in an F-2.

An unplanned redesign of the NGJ MB system played a role in the U.S. Navy’s rejection of a Raytheon bid to use the same pods for a NGJ Low Band demo program.

The Pentagon is standing up a congressionally mandated, cross-functional team to address electronic warfare gaps throughout the military services.

Harris and Comtech PST will compete for the U.S. Navy’s low-band version of the Next Generation Jammer pod as part of Northrop Grumman’s team.

The U.S. Marine Corps’ last squadron of Northrop Grumman EA-6B airborne jammers has completed its final deployment and entered a yearlong deactivation process.

UK company Horizon Technologies is flight testing its Xtender satphone intercept system on a small quadcopter.

Saab’s second Gripen E test aircraft, designated 39-9, completed a 33-min. first flight from Linkoping, Sweden, on Nov. 26.

The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory will provide a range of options to the commandant for counter-unmanned aircraft system air domain surveillance.

South Korea plans to purchase two Green Pine Block C radar warning systems for $292 million.

Russia is planning to resume trials of the active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar made by Phazotron-NIIR on MiG-29 family fighters.

Raytheon hopes to be under contract with the U.S. Navy in 2019 to develop an advanced version of its Miniature Air-Launched Decoy.

U.S. Navy officials want to develop “as soon as feasibly possible” a next-generation towed decoy for the Boeing F/A-18E/F fleet.

DARPA has selected BAE Systems to develop a new data-driven, machine-learning algorithm to decode radio frequency signals.

Lockheed Martin has begun the second phase of a project to integrate an infrared search and track sensor internally on the U.S. Navy’s Boeing F/A-18E/F fleet.