Northrop Grumman has received a $ 56.2 million contract from the US Air Force to provide the Enhanced Land/Maritime Mode (ELMM) mobile target precision tracking and engagement system for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint Stars) aircraft fleet.Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. has received a $ 56.2 million contract from the US Air Force to provide the Enhanced Land/Maritime Mode (ELMM ELMM Enhanced Land/Maritime Mode (replaces Affordable Moving Surface Target Engagement for JSTARS) ) mobile target precision tracking and engagement system for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint Stars) aircraft fleet. The ELMM targeting capability was demonstrated with GPS-guided Jdam missiles during live drops in 2003 and 2004, which has led to this capability being installed throughout the Joint Stars fleet. This contract is in synergy The enhanced result of two or more people, groups or organizations working together. In other words, one and one equals three! It comes from the Greek "synergia," which means joint work and cooperative action. with the Advanced Radar Mode (Arm) upgrade to the Joint Stars sensor, which will provide a Swath Synthetic Aperture Radar Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Radar, airborne or satellite-borne, that uses special signal processing to produce high-resolution images of the surface of the Earth (or another object) while traversing a considerable flight path. mode and a new processing architecture to the aircraft's sensors. |
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