Pömpeli #2:n sisältö on viimeistä testiä vaille selvä.
NGJ-LB begins final DET tests
18 May 2020 NavAir
"NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md -- The U.S. Navy recently began the final Demonstration of Existing Technologies (DET) test period for the Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) capability at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. Tests are being conducted at the Air Combat Environmental Test and Evaluation Facility and the Facility for Antenna and RCS Measurement (FARM) through this summer. The 20-month DET contract has been a collaborative effort with industry partners to assess technical maturity....
...NGJ-LB is part of a larger NGJ weapon system that will augment, and ultimately replace the legacy ALQ-99 Tactical Jamming System (TJS) currently used for Airborne Electronic Attack on the EA-18G Growler aircraft. “NGJ-LB is the next step in the evolution of Airborne Electronic Attack that is needed to meet current and emerging electronic warfare gaps, and our team is dedicated to delivering this capability to the fleet as quickly as possible,” Orr [Airborne Electronic Attack Systems (PMA-234) Program Manager Capt. Michael Orr, who oversees the NGJ-LB program] said.
The U.S. Navy recently began the final Demonstration of Existing Technologies (DET) test period for the Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) capability at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland. Tests are being conducted at the Air Combat Environmental Test and Evaluation Facility and...
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"L3 was awarded $35.7 million and Northrop was awarded $35.2 million for the low band effort."
""NAVAIR has split the replacement for the ALQ-99 into three segments: low, mid and high bands. Instead of competing for the low-band work directly, NAVAIR put out a 2017 solicitation for “[a] demonstration that will lead to an assessment of the maturity level of the technologies that might be applied to a low band jammer pod,” a NAVAIR spokesperson told USNI News in a statement in August. “This will help inform the appropriate acquisition strategy of the program."
"The new study contracts follows an initial 2013 $271 million award to Raytheon for the ALQ-249, the mid-band portion of the NGJ. In 2016, Raytheon was awarded a subsequent $1.2 billion for the effort."
The Government Accountability Office has denied a protest by Raytheon over a contract award for the Navy’s Next Generation Jammer, according to a posting on the GAO website. With the protest concluded, Naval Air Systems Command has now awarded contracts to L3 and Northrop Grumman to study the...
news.usni.org
Eli toiselle L3 tai Northropille iskettäneen vielä isompi tukko käteen kunhan tämä testi kertoo mitä laivasto lopulta haluaa. Raytheonille melkoiset rahat liikahtanut jo aiemman mid-bandin myötä.
High bandiin voidaan päästä jo maksajaksi jos pysytään aikataulussa...
"For the latest phase of this project, Navy officials say they plan to spend $14 million in 2020, $95 million in 2021, and unspecified amounts from 2022 to 2025."
The Navy wants a prime U.S. defense contractor to develop a low-band tactical RF jammer pod to help the EA-18G foil enemy counter-stealth radar systems.
www.militaryaerospace.com
"NGJ-MB will replace one of high-band ALQ-99 pods that Growlers carry under each wing, the NGJ-LB, will replace the low-band pod that the aircraft carry on the centerline store position under the fuselage (the third one, a high-band pod, being developed as part of the so-called Increment III, will be carried on the left wing). The NGJ-LB will be extremely important to provide cover to stealth aircraft, threatened by the emerging counter-stealth Low Band radars, engaging enemy threats from increased stand-off distances and employing increased capacity (number of jamming assignments). "
Northropin LB-podikonseptissa on ilmeisesti ALQ-99:n tapaan propelli.
https://theaviationist.com/2020/01/...ea-18g-growlers-next-gen-jammer-low-band-pod/