BAE COMPLETES FIRST PHASE OF RAPTOR DIGITAL SYSTEM TESTS.Byline: - Daily News EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - BAE Systems BAE Systems British manufacturer of aircraft, missiles, avionics, naval vessels, and other aerospace and defense products. BAE Systems was formed (1999) from the merger of British Aerospace (BAe) with Marconi Electronic Systems. said its digital electronic warfare Noun 1. electronic warfare - military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum EW military action, action - a military engagement; "he saw action in Korea" system has completed the first phase of developmental flight tests on the U.S. Air Force's F/A-22 Raptor. The tests of the digital EW system were conducted at Edwards Air Force Base over the past four months. The flight tests are part of BAE Systems' F/A-22 Product Improvement Program. In 2004, Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. - the F/A-22 prime contractor - selected BAE Systems' digital receiver technology as the baseline electronic-warfare system for future production lots on the new Air Force fighter. BAE said its digital system exploits breakthroughs in commercial analog-to-digital technology and field-programmable gate arrays (hardware) field-programmable gate array - (FPGA) A gate array where the logic network can be programmed into the device after its manufacture. An FPGA consists of an array of logic elements, either gates or lookup table RAMs, flip-flops and programmable interconnect wiring. . It replaces older analog receiver technology with reconfigurable digital receivers, lowering cost, power consumption and weight. The flight tests culminate a three-year engineering and manufacturing development effort. The new digital EW equipment will be introduced in BAE Systems' Lot 5 production deliveries that will be incorporated on the aircraft beginning in 2006. |
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