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CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense No.
569-03 FOR RELEASE AT Aug 04,
2003 (703)697-5131(media) (703)428-0711(public/industry) Monday,
August 4, 2003 - 5:00 PM Contracts, Monday, August 4,
2003 _CONTRACTS_ _NAVY_ Northrop Grumman
Systems Corp., Bethpage, N.Y., is being awarded a
$1,932,012,688 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the system development and
demonstration (SDD) of the E-2 Advanced Hawkeye (AHE). The SDD phase
will consist of modifying two E-2 Hawkeye 2000 aircraft to the E-2 AHE
configuration. The contractor will design, develop, fabricate,
assemble, integrate, furnish, manage, test, evaluate and support the
software, hardware and engineering associated with the SDD phase. Work
will be performed in Bethpage, N.Y. (55.39%); at various locations across the
United States (20.75%); Syracuse, N.Y. (13.91%); Baltimore, Md. (4.98%);
Menlo Park, Calif. (3.22%); and El Segundo, Calif. (1.75%), and is expected
to be completed in December 2012. Contract funds will not expire at the
end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competitively
procured. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the
contracting activity (N00019-03-C-0057). [Web Version: http://www.dod.mil/contracts/2003/ct20030804.html] --
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| Weapon Spotlight: |
E-2C Hawkeye airborne warning and control
aircraft |
| Manufacturer: |
Northrop Grumman [NOC] is prime contractor
for the $51 million E-2C now in production. The latest version of the
E-2C, Hawkeye 2000, produced since 1999 under a $1.4 billion five-year
multiyear contract, includes mission computer upgrades and
Raytheon’s [RTN] Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) hardware.
E-2C is powered by two Rolls-Royce T-56-A427 turboprop engines,
with a maximum speed of more than 300 knots and a service ceiling
approaching 30,000 feet. Lockheed Martin [LMT], Raytheon [RTN],
L-3 [LLL], and Britain’s BAE SYSTEMS are working with
Northrop Grumman under that company’s $49 million system development and
demonstration contract for the E-2C radar modernization program (RMP),
launched Jan. 8, 2002, to improve the APS-145 electronics housed in the
plane’s 24-foot diameter rotating radome. The Advanced Hawkeye effort is
also aimed at incorporating naval theater air and missile defense
functions into the aircraft’s current mission capabilities set. |
| Characteristics: |
Northrop Grumman is producing 21 Hawkeye 2000s
for the Navy, with the third aircraft delivered in April. Low-rate
production for RMP-equipped Advanced Hawkeye may begin in 2006, with
initial operational capability set for 2009. The Navy may buy 75 Advanced
Hawkeye aircraft. In November 2002, the program received $69 million more,
propelling a more than $2 billion system development and demonstration
effort. The Advanced Hawkeye includes Lockheed Martin’s advanced UHF
radar, an electronically steerable antenna by L-3 Communications [LLL].
|
| Combat Use: |
Hawkeye 2000, which the Navy began receiving in
2001, went to sea for the first time aboard USS Nimitz (CVN-68) for
service during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Advanced Hawkeye is to arrive
at the end of the decade. |
| Foreign Users: |
International customers include France, which is
purchasing one Hawkeye 2000, and Taiwan, seeking to buy two Hawkeye 2000s.
Japan and Egypt are funding fleet upgrade programs to modernize their
E-2Cs. Egypt is also buying one additional new aircraft to augment its
current fleet of five E-2Cs, part of a $174 million contract. Northrop
Grumman notes the Hawkeye 2000 “export configuration,” does not include
CEC and satellite communications capability. |
| Analysis: |
The E-2 Advanced Hawkeye RMP and the E-2C
“reproduction” Hawkeye are listed in the Navy’s Acquisition Category IC
programs outline for 2003. Between now and the end of the decade, the Navy
plans to use E-2C Advanced Hawkeye and RMP program funding to develop
software associated with missions including cruise and ballistic missile
defense, littoral warfare, combat identification including specific
emitter identification, multi-source integration, and the joint effort
called single integrated air picture--for which the E-2C is expected to
contribute key data. Important technologies associated with RMP and the
Advanced Hawkeye effort include the space-time adaptive processing
capability, electronically scanning array, solid-state transmitter, and
high-dynamic range digital receivers. The Navy in 1999 ordered 21 Hawkeye
2000 aircraft, with a planned initial operational capability in 2004; that
date was accelerated in light of the global war on terrorism and the
conflict in Iraq this spring. Last December the RMP effort proceeded under
a $22.9 million contract. During system development and demonstration of
RMP, Lockheed Martin expects to produce five new radar systems. A
full-rate production run could follow for 75 E-2C aircraft by 2020. RMP
would provide improved radar range and data quality for CEC in the theater
air and missile defense role. The Advanced Hawkeye will act as an airborne
node for CEC supporting complex air defense missions, leveraging RMP’s
electronically-steered UHF radar system that will be able to detect and
track small targets with enough accuracy to enable remote engagement by
surface ships, such as those with Lockheed Martin’s Aegis Weapon System,
such as aboard the USS Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) and the USS
Ticonderoga-class (CG-47). |
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