NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Aircraft Successfully Takes Flight
19 Décembre 2015 - 11:29PM
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and members of NATO's
Alliance Ground Surveillance Management Agency (NAGSMA) celebrated
an important and much anticipated milestone today. Leaving from
Palmdale, NATO's first Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) aircraft
successfully executed a comprehensive range of test points before
landing at Edwards Air Force Base.
Photos accompanying this release are available at:
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"The NATO AGS aircraft is part of a system that will allow NATO
to meet the requirements of emerging situations around the world.
The program will provide unprecedented flexibility and intelligence
to the Alliance," said Jim Edge, NAGSMA general manager. "I
couldn't be prouder of the multi-national team's hard work and
dedication coming to fruition with today's first flight."
A derivative of the wide-area surveillance Global Hawk, the
unmanned aircraft has the ability to fly for up to 30 hours at a
time. The high-altitude long-endurance system will perform
all-weather, persistent wide-area terrestrial and maritime
surveillance in near real-time. The NATO-owned and operated system
will provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
capabilities to support a range of NATO missions such as protection
of ground troops and civilian populations, border control, maritime
safety and humanitarian assistance.
The aircraft is equipped with leading-edge technology, including
the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP)
sensor. The MP-RTIP sensor will provide critical data to commanders
during operations, in any weather, day or night. Utilizing the
MP-RTIP sensor, the NATO AGS system will be able to fuse sensor
data, continuously detect and track moving objects and provide
imagery of selected objects.
"NATO AGS's successful initial flight kicks off the program's
flight test program and represents Northrop Grumman's commitment to
advanced airworthy systems for the Alliance," stated Rob Sheehan,
NATO AGS deputy program manager, Northrop Grumman. "Strong
collaboration between the Alliance and industry partners continues
to move this extraordinary program forward."
NATO AGS will be based in Sigonella, Italy. The Italian airbase
is already home to U.S Air Force-owned Global Hawks. Northrop
Grumman will begin ferrying the first NATO AGS aircraft to Italy in
2016. The system is being procured by 15 NATO nations (Bulgaria,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
and the United States), and includes five aircraft and
European-sourced mobile and transportable ground stations. The
ground stations will provide data link connectivity, data
processing and exploitation capabilities to multiple deployed and
non-deployed operational users. Following acquisition, NATO AGS
will become a 28 Alliance nation fully-owned and operated NATO
capability.
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.
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