AGM-154 JSOW Wins US DoD Acquisition Award

JSOW-A: Not confetti…(click to view larger) The USA’s AGM-154 Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW) precision glide-bomb has proven to be popular with the US DoD as well as foreign buyers. Indeed, the program has gone so well that the U.S. Department of Defense presented Raytheon’s JSOW program with its highest acquisition honor in November 2005. The David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award is given to civilian and military organizations that have made highly significant contributions or demonstrated exemplary innovations and best practices in the defense acquisition process. Block II JSOW manufacturing began in FY 2006, maintaining all standoff and survivability capabilities but costing less. AGM-154C, impact(click to view full) JSOW is a family of low-cost, air-to-ground weapons that employ an integrated Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation (GPS/INS) system for flight guidance, which can be augmented by imaging infrared (IIR) seekers that can lock on to specific targets. The modular weapon body is capable of carrying various payloads, and Raytheon’s policy is to ensure that all JSOW variants retain the same size, weight, and center of gravity. That way, any JSOW variant can be used on any JSOW-capable aircraft. At present, JSOW has been integrated with F-15E Strike Eagles, the F-16 family, F/A-18 […]