http://businesswire.com, NASHUA: BAE Systems recently received an $8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide 25 AN/USQ-113(V) 3 communications jamming systems for the EA-6B Prowler aircraft.
The EA-6B Prowler is a tactical electronic warfare aircraft that provides day and night lethal and nonlethal electronic warfare capability for Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD).
BAE Systems Information & Electronic Warfare Systems (IEWS), headquartered in Nashua, N.H., builds the AN/USQ-113. The system provides the communications analysis and jamming component to the EA-6B's SEAD mission. This jamming capability helps to protect the lives of airborne and ground troops in tactical combat environments, including Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Jim Morash, BAE Systems' USQ-113 program manager, said, “The additional systems will bring the inventory of USQ-113 systems up to a level that is needed to support deployment and training requirements.”
BAE Systems has been building and producing the USQ-113 for the Navy and Marine Corps since 1996. To date, 67 systems have been delivered to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Maryland; Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, North Carolina; and Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, Washington.
The work will be performed at the IEWS facility in Hudson, N.H., and will be completed in 2006.
BAE Systems is an international company engaged in the development, delivery, and support of advanced defense and aerospace systems in the air, on land, at sea, and in space. BAE Systems Information & Electronic Warfare Systems is a major producer of aircraft self-protection systems and tactical surveillance and intelligence systems for all branches of the armed forces.
