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TRW (Redondo Beach, CA) recently delivered a record-setting, solid-state laser for ship self-protection applications to the Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Chesapeake Bay Detachment (Chesapeake Beach, MD). In laboratory testing performed [...]

The Portuguese government recently signed a letter of offer and acceptance (LOA) for an additional 25 F-16A/B aircraft from the US Air Force inventory and 20 upgrade kits that include [...]

Alliant Defense Electronics Systems, Inc. (Clearwater, FL), a subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems (Minneapolis, MN), has completed an upgrade to the computer subsystem of the its AN/AAR-47 missile warning system (also [...]

In the face of continued protests from Symetrics Industries Inc. (Melbourne, FL), the US Air Force (USAF) Aeronautical Systems Center (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH) has again called upon Tracor Aerospace Inc. [...]

During the Yom Kippur War of 1973, in which Israel faced the combined forces of Egypt and Syria, the IAF came up against what was a new weapon in the [...]

The future of the Defensive Systems Upgrade Program (DSUP) for US Air Force (USAF) B-1B Lancer bombers is now shrouded in uncertainty as the USAF decided not to fund DSUP [...]

The BAE Systems Type 45 Prime Contract Office (PCO) (Filton, Bristol, UK) announced a number of contracts and supplier selections recently for the first tranche of three Type 45 destroyers [...]

The Radio-Frequency Countermeasures (RFCM) portion of the US Navy's Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) program recently got the nod to go ahead with low-rate, initial production (LRIP). The $59-million LRIP [...]

Acting Secretary of the Air Force Lawrence J. Delaney has decided that the Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation Simulator (AFEWES) will remain at Ft. Worth, TX, at least temporarily shelving [...]

The US Navy recently completed a technical evaluation (TECHEVAL) of the Cooperative Engagement Capability system intended to allow warships to engage targets by using data from other CEC-equipped assets. Working [...]

A contract for the EW systems aboard the Franco-Italian Horizon Common New-Generation Frigate (CNGF) is expected to be awarded this spring. The contract will cover development and production of EW [...]

In his annual report on test and evaluation activities, Philip E. Coyle, the US Defense Department's director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E), called the Tactical Electronic Warfare System (TEWS) [...]

The US Navy, via a broad agency announcement (BAA), has called for industry proposals for a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) for integration with its Shared Reconnaissance Pod (SHARP). The SAR represents [...]

With a deadline looming on the horizon for the Secretary of the Air Force (SAF) to report to Congress on a plan to relocate the Air Force Electronic Warfare Evaluation [...]

At the end of last month, proposals were due for the Tactical Targeting Network Technologies (TTNT) program, a research effort run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and [...]

Industry proposals for the initial phase of the Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) program have been submitted to the US Air Force (USAF) program office at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Informed [...]

The ALR-2002 radar warning receiver (RWR), developed by BAE Systems Australia (Adelaide, Australia), recently completed its first series of test flights aboard a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/RF-111 aircraft. [...]

Northrop Grumman Corporation's Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector has been awarded a $122.8-million contract from the US Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, Army Space Program Office (Fort Belvoir, VA) [...]

NATO's recent electronic-warfare exercise, dubbed MACE X, recently conducted in the southwest of France, included a demonstration of the capabilities of three new electronic-warfare self-protection (EWSP) systems from Thomson-CSF Detexis [...]

The US Department of Defense (DOD) has selected 17 new-start projects and twenty continuing projects to receive FY01 funding under the Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) program. This time around, electronic-warfare [...]

Follwing evaluation of bids received in response to a recent request for proposals (see 'RFP Released for Comanche EW, Decision Imminent,' JED, September 2000, p. 25), the Boeing Co. (Mesa, [...]

Electronic-warfare self-protection (EWSP) systems will not be included in Turkey's $5-billion attack-helicopter procurement as previously planned. Instead, an industry source told JED, a separate request for proposals (RFP) will be [...]

The Turkish Air Force (TuAF) recently decided to award the team of Thomson-CSF Detexis (Paris, France) and local company Aselsan (Ankara, Turkey) the contract for the provision of EW self-protection [...]

Following the recent receipt of bids in response to a request for proposals released this summer for an international company to lead systems-integration work on the six maritime-patrol aircraft (MPA) [...]

The UAE has selected Thomson-CSF (Genevilliers, France) to supply secure airborne radios and datalinks to be installed on the country's F-16 Block-60 fighters. The communications systems to be provided by [...]

The Republic of (South) Korea Air Force (ROKAF) has officially decided to equip its latest batch of F-16 fighters with the AN/ALQ-165 Airborne Self-Protection Jammer (ASPJ). According to industry sources, [...]

The future of Australia's $1-billion Project Wedgetail (Air 5077) now appears very grim, following the Australian Ministry of Defence's decision to defer consideration of the airborne-early-warning-and-control (AEW&C) program until the [...]

The venerable B-52H Stratofortress will receive further upgrades in order to keep the aircraft viable until the end of its service life, or about 40 more years, as outlined in [...]

Government flight tests of the Advanced Threat Infrared Counter-measures/Common Missile Warning System (ATIRCM/CMWS), developed by Sanders (Nashua, NH), are set to begin in November, following the system's completion of contractor [...]

The US Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center Reconnaissance Systems Program Office (ASC/RA) is preparing to move the RQ-4A Global Hawk High-Altitude Endurance Unmanned Reconnaissance System program into the engineering-and-manufacturing-development (EMD) [...]

Along with recent requests for identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) systems and an upgrade for its AH-64A Apaches (see 'Egypt Moves Toward Greater Fratricide Avoidance' and 'Egypt Requests Apache Upgrade,' JED, September 2000, [...]

The Israeli government and the Boeing Co. (Mesa, AZ) have inked a deal whereby the company will modify AH-64D Longbow Apaches. Israeli announced its intent to purchase AH-64D Longbow Apaches [...]

It seems the Polish Air Force will select an Israeli company to upgrade its Su-22M4 fighter-bombers. JED has learned that Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd. (Yehud, Israel) and Elbit Systems Ltd. [...]

Cubic Corp. (San Diego, CA) recently acquired Oscmar International Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand), a developer and manufacturer of precision instruments for use in simulation systems, instrumentation and control equipment and [...]

In addition to the licensed manufacture of King Cobras for Turkey (see 'Turkey Selects King Cobra,' JED, August 2000, P. 22), JED has learned that Turkish companies will also be [...]

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has added two more Collins-class submarines to the list of boats to be upgraded. The upgrade of the two subs -- HMAS Farncomb and the [...]

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has selected Raytheon Australia's Support Services unit (Adelaide, Australia) to provide electronic-warfare (EW) training services and an updated EW training capability. Negotiations are currently underway [...]

The US Navy has awarded Sanders (Nashua, NH) a contract worth up to $250 million for full-rate production of the Cooperative OUTBOARD Logistics Update (COBLU) system, an upgrade of the [...]

Following the successful completion of recent sea trials aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, the US Navy has decided to move forward with production of the AN/WLR-1H(V)7 electronic-support-measures (ESM) system, [...]

The government of Turkey has request clearance from the US government to purchase eight ANIMPQ-64 Sentinel radar systems as part of a proposed foreign military sale of Hawk missiles. The [...]

Northrop Grumman Corp. (Los Angeles, CA) recently announced an agreement to acquire Comptek Research, Inc. (Buffalo, NY), in a stock-for-stock transaction. Northrop Grumman also announced the sale of its commercial-aerostructures [...]

According to the Russian Interfax news agency, Russia and the People's Republic of China (PRC) are close to an agreement concerning cooperative use and future development of the GLONASS system, [...]

The US Army has tapped California Microwave Systems Airborne Systems (Belcamp, MD), part of Northrop Grumman's Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector, to provide the service's Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Multifunction (ARL-M) aircraft [...]

The German Ministry of Defense (MOD) has chosen a missile-approach-warning system (MAWS) for Luftwaffe C.160 Transall transport aircraft, opting for the AN/AAR-54(V) Passive Missile Approach Warning System (PMAWS), produced by [...]

The US House of Representatives recently instructed the Secretary of the Air Force (SAF) to review an effort that would result in the relocation of the Air Force Electronic Warfare [...]

After some shuffling of partners, sources indicate that the team of BAE Systems (Christchurch, UK) and Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, MD) have the advantage over competitors Raytheon Co. (Lexington, MA) and [...]

Following the Israeli cancellation -- at US urging -- of its planned sale of the Phalcon radar to the People's Republic of China (see 'Phalcon Will Not Fly With PRC,' [...]

After several delays, and as JED predicted (see 'Middle Eastern EW: The Long Journey to Self-Sufficiency,' lED, February 2000, P. 43), the Turkish government has selected the King Cobra for [...]

Light mobile units within the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) will soon have a new electronic-support-measures (ESM) capability, courtesy of the Formation Light Electronic Warfare System (FLEWS) program. The goal of [...]

Both the Republic of (South) Korea (ROK) and Singapore have ordered more F-16 fighters. Under separate agreements, each country will receive 20 new F-16s. Korean Aerospace Industries will produce 20 [...]