Telecom Lead America: Harris Corporation is the leading
equipment vendor with the highest defense communications contracts.
Northrop Grumman continues to demonstrate market
leadership in the optoelectronics space with contracts and milestones around
the company’s Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) and LITENING pod
technologies.
Despite the uncertainties that continue to dog the
defense industry in all sectors, including radar, communications, electronic
warfare and other systems, March showed robust activity.
The Strategy Analytics Advanced Defense Systems (ADS)
service report called Defense Electronics Industry Review: March 2012 includes
significant defense industry news, discussing business events, product
announcements, milestones and contract activity.
GaN (gallium nitride) also continues to cement its
position as a key enabling technology, as seen at TriQuint, which released
product at GOMACTech 2012.
Despite the countdown to sequestration in the US, and
budgetary constraints in the global environ, defense industry activity remains
robust from platforms down to components,” said Asif Anwar, director of the ADS
service.
The Saab Gripen project appears to be on track with
commitments from the Swedish Armed Forces; and Boeing is delivering aircraft to
the US Navy under two separate contracts.
Component technology development included DARPA (Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency) funded efforts, resulting in TowerJazz and
UCSD demonstrating a SiGe (silicon germanium) -based wafer-scale phased array,”
said Eric Higham, ADS Service Director North America.
GaN (gallium nitride) also continues to cement its
position as a key enabling technology, as seen at TriQuint, which released
product at GOMACTech 2012.
The AESA (active electronically scanned array) radar from
THALES being fielded on the Dassault Rafale fast-jet platform.
AESA technology was also evident as the US Army awarded
contracts for the AN/TPQ-53 Firefinder Radar to Lockheed Martin.
Raytheon received a number of radar contracts, including
improvements for the Counter Rocket Artillery and Mortar Sense & Warn
(C-RAM S&W) systems, for which Raytheon will produce a Ku-band radar.
