WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman introduced an Air Pressure award to finish a venture for the digital warfare suite for the F-16 fighter jet.
The objective of the prototyping is to guard pilots from growing radio frequency-guided weapons by detecting, figuring out and defeating them, a Jan. 11 announcement from Northrop mentioned. An organization didn’t present a greenback quantity for the award, granted underneath the Pentagon’s different transaction authority.
Initially chosen in 2019 to prototype a design, Northrop was requested to design an internally mounted digital warfare suite and digital radar warning receiver for F-16s, Ryan Tintner, vp, navigation, concentrating on and survivability at Northrop, mentioned in an emailed assertion.
Northrop’s system will present radar warning and superior countermeasure capabilities and can be appropriate with Northrop’s AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) aboard F-16s. As these plane purchase fashionable energetic electronically scanned arrays, such because the SABR, the F-16′s digital warfare capabilities should combine with these sensors, Tintner mentioned.
“The digital warfare suite will considerably improve safety to F-16 operators as they execute their missions in more and more contested environments,” Tintner mentioned. “This method attracts on one of the best of our expertise from a number of packages to create an efficient and inexpensive resolution to maintain the Viper related all through its service life.”
The design makes use of open techniques, extremely wide-band structure for better instantaneous bandwidth to react to fashionable threats, and it’s scalable to satisfy operational wants of the U.S. and worldwide companions, the corporate added.
Northrop acquired notification for this downselect in November 2020.