Harris advanced targeting systems
enable Navy jets to find and attack
targets quickly
July 12, 2015
PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md., 9 July 2015. Military networking
experts at Harris Corp. will provide the U.S. Navy with new airborne
targeting systems and situational awareness equipment that enable
F/A-18 jet fighter-bomber crews to locate, classify, and attack important
targets quickly.
Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval
Air Station, Md., announced a $29.1 million contract last week to the
Harris Government Communications Systems Division in Melbourne,
Fla., for 138 Distributed Targeting System (DTS) in two separate
production lots.
The DTS systems are for Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G
Growler carrier-based combat jets. Of this order, 126 are for the Navy
and 12 are for the government of Australia. The job includes 54
operational bulk data cartridges and parts obsolescence management.
The DTS is a hardware and software system designed to provide precision
strike capability against relocatable targets like mobile surface-to-air
missile units, Navy officials say.
The system uses sensor imagery gathered from the radar or infrared
signatures emitted by potential targets. It then compares those images
to references stored within DTS to determine if the target is a threat.
The system is designed to reduce the time it takes to search, identify,
classify, pinpoint, and attack a target as well as assess the damage to
the target, a process also known as the kill chain.
With onboard communications, one aircraft equipped with DTS can provide
several target points to other aircraft. Without this capability, each aircraft
derives individual coordinates on each target.
The system is part of the Navy F/A-18E/F Network Centric Warfare Upgrades
program and F/A-18E/F flight plan designed to ensure that the Block II Super
Hornet will stay ahead of known and emerging threats through 2025.
The DTS was fielded on all Block II F/A-18E/F Super Hornets starting in 2004.
Initial operational capability was in late 2012 with operational fielding in 2013.
On this contract Harris will do the work in Melbourne, Fla., and should be
finished by October 2018.
For more information contact Harris Government Communications Systems
navair.navy.mil.
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