$5.1M for Research into LMSJ Jamming Systems
Apr 13, 2005 13:29 EDT
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Warfare (EW) Systems in Nashua, NH is being awarded a $5.1 million cost-plus fixed-fee contract modification to provide for additional work for the Lightweight Modular Support Jammer (LMSJ) 2005 Congressional Plus Up Program. The LMSJ is intended to produce a compact new technology high power jamming system which would permit the easy integration of jamming packages with varying levels of aggregate power output and band coverage. The result would be a family of jamming modules suitable for installation in manned aircraft, but also UAVs – in effect a LEGO jammer.
The program will accomplish hardware and software modifications and upgrades to the basic LMSJ system to include total end-to-end integration with the Advanced Threat Alert and Response digital receiver, development and fabrication of a high band transmitter and active phased array antenna, and improvements to the Electronic Attack (EA) jamming manager and techniques generator. Ground testing and flight test demonstrations of the full system on a small unmanned aerial vehicle will take place at an EW test range in Nevada to further evaluate jammer performance against realistic radar threats. Also included in the Plus-Up effort is a thorough study of the feasibility and architecture for a Network Centric Electronic Warfare Battle Management concept, which would control an Electronic Attack system-of-systems. The relevance of this concept to fleets of robotic jammer aircraft based on designs like the X-45 UCAV is obvious.
Work will be performed at BAE Systems in Lansdale PA and BAE Systems Information and Technology in North Merrimack, NH. Negotiations were complete March 2005, and work it will be complete by October 2006. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH issued the contract (F33615-02-C-1183, P00012).
