Boeing, BAE Systems Team Up To Offer Stand-Off Jammer
Program
Boeing and BAE Systems
have combined their B-52 and electronic warfare expertise to offer
the US Air Force a highly qualified team to execute the B-52
Stand-Off Jammer (SOJ) program.
"It takes a highly experienced electronic warfare integrator,
along with the B-52 platform expert to deliver the maximum benefits
of an effects-based, electronic attack capability," said Pat
Finneran, vice president and general manager of Boeing's Logistics
Support Systems. "The Boeing/BAE Systems team provides both. We
have the vision and capability to deliver multi-platform electronic
combat battle management for the Air Force's Airborne Electronic
Attack (AEA) system of systems."
"Our team will leverage experience from major development and
integration responsibilities on all key AEA programs," said Mike
Heffron, president of BAE Systems' Information Warfare line of
business.
The Air Force plans to make the B-52 an integral part of its AEA
plan, by fitting the aircraft with simultaneous jamming, decoy and
strike capabilities. The Air Force is expected to award the
pre-System Development and Demonstration contract this fall. The
B-52 SOJ program is estimated to be fully operational by 2012.
Finneran and Heffron detailed several distinct advantages of the
Boeing/BAE Systems' best value solution for the war fighter:
The team's electronic battle management and multi-vehicle
command and control algorithms and software, which are also
supporting all teams for the E-10A and Joint-Unmanned Combat Air
Systems (J-UCAS), provide a highly leveraged, cost effective
integrated electronic warfare node within the AEA System of
Systems. The system will counter the integrated air defense systems
of today, enabling the Air Force's Information Dominance
vision.
The team's direct involvement on other major electronic warfare
development programs like the B-52, EA-18G, J-UCAS, Compass Call,
F/A-22, and F-35 ensures in-depth understanding of the evolving
Airborne Electronic Attack concept of operations, warfighter needs,
and B-52H SOJ mission expectations.
The team understands relevant technologies such as networking
electronic attack, electronic surveillance and data distribution,
they said.
The team's modular, scalable approach is tailored for B-52 SOJ
requirements, according to the two executives.
Boeing and BAE Systems say their solution provides integrated
receivers, jamming pods with pre-emptive and selective reactive
jamming techniques, and mission-management software for the
Stand-Off Jammer mission. They promise the team's approach will
meet the customer's needs on four critical interfaces: Stand-off
jammer system integration; systems integration on the B-52
platform; addressing the human/crew interface and, ultimately,
successful integration within the Air Force's AEA systems of
systems. And, they promise, it will be achieved without degrading
current weapons carriage capability.
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