Advancing UK Aerospace, Defence, Security & Space Solutions Worldwide
  • Home
  • /
  • Defence
  • /
  • BAE Systems and SNC to provide USAF with advanced SIGINT tech

Defence

BAE Systems and SNC to provide USAF with advanced SIGINT tech

The US Air Force (USAF) has awarded the BAE Systems-Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) team a contract to provide a prototype design for the next-generation open architecture signals intelligence (SIGINT) technology under its Global High-altitude Open-system Sensor Technology (GHOST) programme.

Above: BAE Systems’ SIGINT technology provides full-spectrum awareness and actionable intelligence for the USAF.
Courtesy BAE Systems

 
The award continues BAE Systems, Inc.’s development efforts to provide full-spectrum awareness and actionable intelligence with a SIGINT sensor design.

Advertisement
ODU RT 2

“Our SIGINT technology is one of the few on the market designed from the start with open architecture,” said David Logan, vice president and general manager of C4ISR Systems at BAE Systems. “We worked closely with the customer community to design our solution in this way – giving the US Air Force the ability to easily add new capabilities in the future to counter evolving threats.”

Under the contract, awarded earlier this year, the team will provide a sensor prototype that gives insight into adversaries’ actions by collecting and analysing electronic signals. It will exploit the radio frequency (RF) spectrum, critical to battlefield superiority, to detect, identify, locate, and track RF emissions.

BAE Systems offers a range of adaptive signals intelligence products that allow the warfighter to address emerging and dynamic threats across all phases and domains of battle. The company has more than 20 years of experience developing software-defined open architecture SIGINT systems and our customers have logged more than 100,000 operational hours on our systems. The BAE Systems portion of the development work for this contract will take place at its facility in Hudson, NH.

Advertisement
Marshall RT

SNC pioneers scalable open-architecture SIGINT solutions for airborne, ground and maritime applications, plus Electronic Intelligence. SNC will perform GHOST work in Folsom, CA, San Antonio, TX, and Dayton, OH.
 

 

Advertisement
Advanced Navigation LB 1
PPM Systems enables 5x increase in detection range

Defence Security Events

PPM Systems enables 5x increase in detection range

25 April 2024

Swindon based PPM Systems are increasing observational antenna radius by solving signal distribution limitations.

DE&S advances to next gen fires platform

Defence

DE&S advances to next gen fires platform

25 April 2024

A significant milestone in the modernisation of the British Army’s artillery has been agreed following a landmark defence agreement between the United Kingdom and Germany.

British Army’s Challenger 3 conducts live firings

Defence Events

British Army’s Challenger 3 conducts live firings

25 April 2024

Live firings of the British Army’s highly lethal future tank – the Challenger 3 - have taken place in Germany this week, witnessed by UK Defence Procurement Minister, James Cartlidge.

QinetiQ achieves UK’s first aircraft and autonomous drone teaming

Defence

QinetiQ achieves UK’s first aircraft and autonomous drone teaming

25 April 2024

QinetiQ has successfully trialled the UK’s first Crewed-Uncrewed-Teaming demonstration between a crewed aircraft and an autonomous jet drone.

Advertisement
Advanced Engineering RT
Kromek receives US nuclear security contract

Defence Security

Kromek receives US nuclear security contract

25 April 2024

Kromek Group plc has been awarded a contract, worth up to $2.9 million, from a US federal entity for the provision of nuclear security products.

Babcock to manage Type 23 for Royal Navy

Defence

Babcock to manage Type 23 for Royal Navy

25 April 2024

Babcock International Group has been awarded the contract to manage the Type 23 class frigate Refit Support Group, allowing the company to take end-to-end responsibility for vessel upkeep and regeneration in preparation for handover to the ship’s crew.

Advertisement
Marshall RT