Tue, May 20, 2003
$113 Million Payment for 17th E-8C
Northrop Grumman has received a final $113 million increment of
a $257 million contract for production of the 17th E-8C Joint
Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft.
The contract includes funding to establish
postproduction planning and support after the completion of the
final aircraft. Delivery of the 17th E-8C Joint STARS to the U.S.
Air Force is
scheduled for March 2005.
"Since this contract award coincides with the successful
conclusion of Operation Iraqi Freedom, we have already begun
writing the next chapter in the Joint STARS program history," said
Alan Doshier, sector vice president for Airborne Ground
Surveillance and Battle Management (AGS&BM) Systems. "Northrop
Grumman is very proud of the recent operational performance of
Joint STARS, and we will be actively involved with our Air Force
customers in translating the lessons learned from Operation Iraqi
Freedom into improved surveillance and battle management
capabilities for the future."
This will be the seventh aircraft produced in the Block 20
configuration, which contains commercial-off-the-shelf computing
and data processing capability. This technology provides the Air
Force with increased performance and reliability in addition to a
major increase in future growth capacity for onboard battle
management, all at a lower cost per aircraft.
Joint STARS offers battlefield commanders real-time situational
information, while simultaneously transmitting target locations to
aircraft and ground strike forces. Joint STARS is the only platform
in the U.S. arsenal that combines accurate wide-area moving-target
detection with synthetic aperture radar imagery to locate, classify
and track ground targets in all weather conditions from standoff
distances.
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