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The companies like Northrop Grumman, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are struggling to win the bid for the U.S. Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) competition. Northrop Grumman's officials feel that the BAMS competition is only one where the testing is performed on full basis.

Britain's first Astor ground-surveillance radar aircraft is under testing at Raytheon's Greenville, Texas, facility, and this next-generation surveillance and intelligence platform is an entirely new capability that is being introduced into the British armed forces. The Astor system has demonstrated Joint Stars interoperability, including the transfer of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and ground moving target indicator (GMTI) imagery to the ground station and the uplink of radar requests.

Northrop Grumman plans to pitch its ZPY-1 STARLite ground surveillance radar for the US Navy's future MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. 'We're going to bid this on our Fire Scout [...]

The task of combining European and US technology to produce a battlefield surveillance system for NATO is expected to be declared feasible by the six nations behind the Transatlantic Cooperative [...]

The FAA's automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) infrastructure deployment program is finally beginning to take shape with key sites coming online. The program is moving from development and implementation to becoming an operational program with initial operational capability (IOC) at the last 4 sites coming up.

Six countries involved in the Transatlantic Collaborative Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) Radar (TCAR) conducted a feasibility assessment of the technology and have approved industry's proposal on workshare. Although the feasibility study has been approved, Raytheon one of the US team members still harbors resentment that it lost the competition to Northrop Grumman Corp. for the larger ground-surveillance project.

Northrop Grumman has delivered the first two ANZPY-1 STARLite radars to the US Army for its Extended Range/Multi-Purpose (ER/MP) unmanned aerial system (UAS). Northrop Grumman is to supply a total of 33 STARLite radar systems by April 2011.

EADS (Ulm, Germany) will upgrade eleven air-surveillance radars in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the latest technology standard. The company announced that it has received an order from the [...]

The Romanian Ministry of Defense and Lockheed Martin signed a memorandum of understanding to explore co-production of 21 gap-filler radar systems in Romania from 2004-2008. The program would allow Romanian [...]

* The Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) has awarded ThalesRaytheonSystems LLC (Fullerton, CA) a $45-million dollar contract to upgrade TPQ-36A air surveillance radars. The RNoAFs TPQ36A is the predecessor system [...]

Northrop Grumman's bid to win the UK's Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) has been strengthened by a contract to begin development of an upgrade for the USJoint Surveillance Target Attack Radar [...]

NATO is watching the UK's Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) competition with keen interest as it works to restart its stalled Air Ground Surveillance (AGS) programme.The winner of the 730 million [...]

Westinghouse Electric Corp's Electronic Systems Group intends to buy equipment manufactured in India for their products going to the Middle East, provided they cost less than those made in the US. Specifically, the company would purchase products from Bharat Electronics Ltd, with which it will close a technology-transfer contract involving radars. The proposed $30-million agreement calls for the provision of four Westinghouse-made primary and secondary airport surveillance radars to India's National Airports Authority.

Grumman Aerospace Corp. and Norden Systems were selected over competing bidders Hughes Aircraft and a Westinghouse-Lockheed team to capture a $657 million full-scale development contract for the controversial Air Force/Army [...]