Northrop Grumman Team Completes First In-Flight AESA Communications
13 Juin 2007 - 3:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
BALTIMORE, June 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Northrop Grumman
Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and its teammates L-3 Communications, Inc.
(NYSE:LLL) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT) have
successfully conducted the first in-flight communications link with
an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. "We took our
targeting radar and turned it into a 'talking' radar by enabling it
to transmit and receive unprecedented amounts of information," said
Teri Marconi, vice president of Northrop Grumman's combat avionics
business unit. "We're revolutionizing the way that data is
collected, stored and distributed on the battlefield." The Radar
Common Data Link (R-CDL) represents the most advanced concept and
approach in providing a high-speed pipeline to offload data and
imagery from a tactical platform. R-CDL uses the AESA radar's fire
control transmitter and antenna to perform high-data rate, two-way
communications at long ranges. Synthetic aperture radar map imagery
and streaming video were relayed from a Northrop Grumman BAC 1-11
test aircraft to an L-3 Communications ground station. During the
mission, the team transmitted and received in full duplex at
274-megabits per second burst rate. The airborne and ground
terminals used off-the-shelf L-3 programmable modems with the
addition of a new R-CDL waveform. This capability complements
tactical data links and supports potential future missions
conducted by the Lockheed Martin fifth-generation fighter aircraft.
This will allow pilots to relay important combat information to the
global information grid (GIG) in seconds. Marconi added that the
flight test represents the beginning of new connectivity to the GIG
and the next step in network-centric warfare. Headquartered in New
York City, L-3 Communications employs over 63,000 people worldwide
and is a prime system contractor in aircraft modernization and
maintenance, C3ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems and government services.
L-3 is also a leading provider of high technology products,
subsystems and systems. The company reported 2006 sales of $12.5
billion. To learn more about L-3, please visit the company's web
site at http://www.l-3com.com/. Headquartered in Bethesda, Md.,
Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is
principally engaged in the research, design, development,
manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology
systems, products, and services. The corporation reported 2006
sales of $39.6 billion. Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30
billion global defense and technology company whose 122,000
employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in
information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding
to government and commercial customers worldwide. DATASOURCE:
Northrop Grumman Corporation CONTACT: Alleace Gibbs of Northrop
Grumman, +1-410-765-1294, ; or Rob Fuller of Lockheed Martin,
+1-770-494-2578, ; or Jennifer Barton of L-3 Communications,
+1-212-805-5356, /First Call Analyst: Web site:
http://www.northropgrumman.com/ http://www.l-3com.com/
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