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Northrop
Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC - News) announced an award of
US$256 million contract received for continued technology development
of the E-10A wide area surveillance and battle management command
and control (MNC2) platform. The contract covers design and
analysis of the E-10A Technology Development Program (TDP) through
Initial Design Review, which is scheduled for May 2007.
According to Dave Nagy, vice president of Northrop Grumman's
Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance Programs, the current
phase will test the new radar technology to be used for wide-area
surveillance, offering ground and air surveillance targeting
capabilities. The program integrates and Northrop Grumman's
Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2) mission suite into
an airborne system that provides a able to detect, classify,
characterize and report cruise missile targets, ground moving
target. Several E-10As are planned to operate within a networked
multi-sensor command and control constellation environment to
cover a wide area. The program is managed by Air Force Material
Command's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base,
Mass.
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