Northrop Grumman Sees AESA Radar Technology Enhancing Affordability
ARLINGTON, Va. - Active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar technology will be key to affordability in current and future radar systems, a Northrop Grumman officials says.
Speaking to reporters Sept. 10 at the National Press Club in Washington, Pat Antkowiak, vice president and general manager of the company's Advanced Concepts and Technology Division, said the investment in thousands of APG-81 AESA radars being built for the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter will lower the cost of other radars in smaller production quantities, such as the future Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) for Navy destroyers.
AESA radars, with mechanically scanned antennas replaced by fixed-array agile-beam transmit/receive (T/R) modules, offer higher reliability, wider bandwidth, instantaneous bandwidth expansion and simultaneous multimode operation. AESA radars are easily scalable, allowing the same technology to equip antennas from large shipboard radars to pods carried on fighter aircraft.
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