Northrop Grumman demos advanced capabilities at Northern Edge

Northrop Grumman Corporation, together with militarypartners at Northern Edge 2019, successfully displayed advanced capabilities inair-to-air, air-to-surface and maritime tactical scenarios that address keywarfighting gaps in advanced strike; intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance(ISR); and electronic warfare.

Northrop Grumman’s reconfigurable flight test aircraftsignificantly reduces the technology development process, bringing advancedcapabilities to warfighters faster, more affordably and reliably.

“Using reconfigurable flight-test aircraft outfitted withadvanced sensors and cognitive artificial intelligence capability at eventssuch as Northern Edge speeds up the development process significantly,” saidTom Jones, vice president and general manager, airborne C4ISR systems, NorthropGrumman.

Northern Edge is the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s biennialjoint training exercise, held May 13-24 at the Joint Pacific Alaska RangeComplex and the Gulf of Alaska. It involves all U.S. military services andagency partners, as well as virtual participants from stateside and overseasbases. The exercise is designed to enhance air warfare and interoperabilityamong the services in a highly contested environment.

Celebrating 10 years of participation at Northern Edge thisyear, Northrop Grumman has consistently demonstrated its technologycapabilities at the joint military-industry exercise. Innovative solutionstested at earlier Northern Edge exercises include auto target recognition andcombat identification; advanced electronic protection and attack; cognitivemission computing; maritime search and track; long-range surface-to-air missiledetection; 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 warfighting advantage to Air Force, Navy and Marine aircrews.

Source: Northrop Grumman