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Raytheon AFATDS Receives Top 5 DOD Program Award for Systems Engineering Raytheon Company's Advanced Field Artillery Data System (AFATDS) program has been recognized by the Department of Defense and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) as a 2006 Top 5 DoD program award winner for Systems Engineering. AFATDS is the Army's system of record for planning, coordinating and controlling all mortars, close air support, naval gunfire, attack helicopters, offensive electronic warfare, field artillery cannons, rockets and guided missiles. The Top 5 DoD award recognizes excellence in the application of systems engineering that results in highly successful programs. Members from Raytheon's joint government-industry team were presented with the award during NDIA's 10th Annual Systems Engineering Conference in San Diego. This is the second time the AFATDS program has been recognized with this award, and the third award Raytheon has received in the past four years. Raytheon is a technology leader specializing in defense, homeland security, and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning more than 80 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration, and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. Source: Raytheon US Army Awards Rafael $52M Contract Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. has been awarded a contract by the US Army worth $52M for the Simon (GREM) door breaching rifle grenade. The Simon or GREM as it is known in the US is a lightweight, rifle-launched grenade specially adapted to breaching steel or wooden doors from a stand-off distance, and may be fired from a variety of rifles using regular bullets. The Simon (GREM) is designed to breach a door or to enable breaking an entry into a building or an enclosed area, while posing minimum collateral damage or risk to the gunner and to troops following him. The warhead has a special dome shape and its explosion generates a shock wave which blasts the door and causes it to yield. The Simon (GREM), developed and produced by Rafael, was chosen as one of 10 best projects and won the US Army's Award of Excellence in 2005. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. (former RAFAEL Armament Development Authority Ltd.) designs, develops, manufactures and supplies a wide range of advanced defense systems. Indicative production includes among other: naval, air and ground precision guided weapons, Electro-Optical systems, Electronic Warfare (EW) systems, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, acoustic defense systems and armored protection systems. Source: Rafael Force Protection Awarded $91 M Contract by U.S. Marine Corps for Field Service and Training Support Force Protection Inc. announced it has received a contract from the U.S. Marine Corps for the purchase of services in support of operation of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles University, which is a MRAP training program at Red River Army Depot, integrated logistics support, and field service representative support. Total approximate value of the contract is $91.8 million. Force Dynamics, the joint venture between Force Protection and General Dynamics Land Systems, will perform the contract pursuant to the terms of the joint venture agreement. Consistent with that agreement, a subcontract for work to be performed by General Dynamics Land Systems will be forthcoming. Work is scheduled for completion by November 2008. Critical to the optimal performance of Force Protection vehicles is the support they receive in the field. The company have worked continually to ensure that their logistics, maintenance, and training support network grows in parallel with the vehicle production and delivery. Force Protection: Manufactures the world's most advanced ballistic- and mine-protected vehicles. These specialty vehicles incorporate state-of-the-art technology with off-the-shelf American commercial automotive components that protect soldiers against attacks from IEDs, land mines, roadside bombs and hostile fire in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and other hot spots around the world. Force Protection's vehicles are mission-configurable and can be used for operations including mine detection and clearance, troop transport, reconnaissance, command and control, explosive ordnance disposal (EOD), communications, urban weapons system, urban fighting vehicle, and lead convoy. With the ever-changing face of modern warfare, emerging threats have caused government and military leaders to recognize the critical need for vehicles that can protect armed forces and security personnel today, and in the years to come. Source: Force Protection LM's Guided MLRS Unitary Rockets Successful In Anti-Jamming Tests Lockheed Martin successfully conducted two Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary rocket Phase II Product Qualification Test flights recently at White Sands Missile Range, NM. These "GPS2 jamming" tests demonstrated both GMLRS rocket performance while in a GPS jamming environment at long range, as well as the functionality of the warhead using the Point Detonating fuze within the jamming environment. All tests objectives were achieved. The two missions were fired from the HIMARS launcher using one rocket per mission after the launch pod container was conditioned to the "hot" temperature extreme. The first rocket employed the GMLRS "vertical trajectory shaping" software that allows the rocket to impact the target vertically, while the second incorporated the "nominal trajectory shaping" software, which allows for the standard ballistic trajectory flight pattern. Both rockets flew their expected trajectories and functioned as designed in the target area. These tests validated a very tough requirement. This means that GMLRS Unitary can be effectively and productively employed every time - when low collateral damage is a concern and in close proximity to friendly troops - given its surgical precision. The tests further qualified the effects of the unitary warhead on the target following detonation, and continued to demonstrate that the Follow-On configuration hardware and software design complies with the program objectives and requirements. This mission specifically demonstrated rocket performance and provided system performance data in a GPS jamming environment. Source: Lockheed Martin |
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