BUFFALO, N.Y., Nov. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop
Grumman Corporation (NYSE NOC) has been awarded a $219 million contract by the U.S. Air Force for
the Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) Follow-On Production program.
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The contract includes a $44
million initial award that includes foreign military sales.
Under the terms of the program, Northrop Grumman will produce, test
and deliver JTE first article production units. The company will be
delivering two variants of the threat emitter unit (TEU) – the
standard TEU and the wide band version – as well as mobile command
and control units and fixed command and control units.
"The JTE provides the best electronic warfare simulation
capability available today," said Joe
Downie, site director of Northrop Grumman's Buffalo-based Amherst Systems business unit.
"We are looking forward to continuing our work with the U.S. Air
Force to provide our warfighters with this premier training
capability."
JTE is a mobile air defense electronic warfare threat simulator
that provides high-fidelity replication of surface-to-air missiles
and anti-aircraft artillery threats for aircrew training. It is a
robust and ruggedized system that is easily relocatable, reactive
to aircrew/aircraft for fast-jet, fixed-wing and rotary-wing
defensive measures, and which can be rapidly reprogrammed with new
threat parameters. Northrop Grumman's existing JTE is the current
Air Force program of record with 18 systems fielded. The new
systems will be fully backward- and forward-compatible with all
fielded systems and will allow for seamless interoperability of all
existing and new elements.
JTE offers realistic warfighter training and provides a modern,
reactive battlespace environment that is designed to train military
personnel to identify and effectively counter enemy missile and
artillery threats. It is a full-power, multi-threat, high-fidelity
electronic warfare simulator with realistic effective radiated
power levels that has the capability to simultaneously simulate
different types of threats in the surface-to-air missile family,
including those categorized as single-digit and double-digit
threats. The JTE accurately trains combat aircrews to defeat or
avoid integrated air defense systems around the world in a war-like
training environment.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global security company providing
innovative systems, products and solutions in unmanned systems,
cyber, C4ISR, and logistics and modernization to government and
commercial customers worldwide. Please visit
www.northropgrumman.com for more information.
SOURCE Northrop Grumman Corporation