Northrop Grumman Selected for Air Defense Simulator

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a $219 million contract by the U.S. Air Force for the Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) Follow-On Production program.

 

The contract includes a $44 million initial award that includes foreign military sales. Under the terms of the program, Northrop Grumman will produce, test, and deliver JTE first article production units. The company will be delivering two variants of the threat emitter unit (TEU) – the standard TEU and the wide band version – as well as mobile command and control units and fixed command and control units.

 

JTE is a mobile air defense electronic warfare threat simulator that provides high-fidelity replication of surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery threats for aircrew training. It is a robust and ruggedized system that is easily relocatable, reactive to aircrew/aircraft for fast-jet, fixed-wing, and rotary-wing defensive measures, and which can be rapidly reprogrammed with new threat parameters.

 

Northrop Grumman's existing JTE is the current Air Force program of record with 18 systems fielded. The new systems will be fully backward- and forward-compatible with all fielded systems and will allow for seamless interoperability of all existing and new elements, according to the company.