Northrop Grumman Corporation of Falls Church, VA, together with military partners at Northern Edge 2019, successfully displayed advanced capabilities in air-to-air, air-to-surface and maritime tactical scenarios that address key warfighting gaps in advanced strike; intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR); and electronic warfare, the company announced July 10.
“Northrop Grumman is developing
agile and affordable technologies that address the advanced strike, ISR and
multi-domain command and control needs for our customers,” said Tom Jones, vice
president and general manager, airborne C4ISR systems, Northrop Grumman. “Using
reconfigurable flight-test aircraft outfitted with advanced sensors and
cognitive artificial intelligence capability at events such as Northern Edge
speeds up the development process significantly.”
Northern Edge is the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s biennial joint training
exercise, held May 13-24 at the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex and the Gulf
of Alaska. It involves all U.S. military services and agency partners, as well
as virtual participants from stateside and overseas bases. The exercise is
designed to enhance air warfare and interoperability among the services in a
highly contested environment.
Celebrating 10 years of participation at Northern Edge this year,
Northrop Grumman has consistently demonstrated leading technology capabilities
at the joint military-industry exercise. Innovative solutions tested at earlier
Northern Edge exercises include auto target recognition and combat
identification; advanced electronic protection and attack; cognitive mission
computing; maritime search and track; long-range surface-to-air missile
detection; and infrared search and track.
Northrop Grumman also demonstrated Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) gateways and multi-level secure live, virtual and constructive training. Many of these capabilities are now fielded on U.S. platforms, providing a significant warfighting advantage to Air Force, Navy and Marine aircrews.
Source: Northrop Grumman
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