BAE Systems electronic warfare pods to protect U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft
06 June 2024 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
BAE Systems received a $95 million contract from the U.S. Navy
for advanced countermeasure pods to protect the P-8A Poseidon
Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft from missiles and other threats.
The electronic warfare (EW) pod detects and counters inbound
threats, protecting the Poseidon and its crews, and expanding the
aircraft’s operating range in contested environments.
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BAE Systems received a $95 million
contract from the U.S. Navy for innovative countermeasure pods to
protect the P-8A Poseidon Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft from
missiles and other threats. (Credit: BAE Systems)
“We’re working closely with the U.S. Navy to deliver innovative
solutions to protect this critical, high-value aircraft,” said Don
Davidson, director of Advanced Compact Electronic Warfare Solutions
at BAE Systems. “We quickly prototyped a very capable system using
proven technology to defend against air-to-air and surface-to-air
guided threats.”
BAE Systems’ survivability pod provides early threat detection
and effective countermeasures to protect U.S. and international
high-value airborne assets. The system’s flexible, open
architecture design allows rapid and affordable modernization, is
compatible with future threat-detection and decoy countermeasure
capabilities, and can host third-party EW techniques.
The engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract
follows a rapid-response contract from the U.S. Navy to demonstrate
the system in 2021. The BAE Systems team designed, built, and
tested a demonstration pod, exhibiting strong military-industry
collaboration and rapid prototyping. The EMD contract follows
successful airworthiness and effectiveness testing.
The P-8A self-protection pod is part of BAE Systems’ Intrepid
ShieldTM layered approach to aircraft and ground platform
survivability that uses the full electromagnetic spectrum to
detect, exploit, and counter advanced threats. The pod can be
rapidly adapted for other high-value airborne assets, enabling them
to operate in contested environments.
Work on the P-8A pod and its components is conducted at BAE
Systems’ state-of-the-art facilities in Nashua, New Hampshire and
Austin, Texas.
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