Northrop Grumman Corp. in Los Angeles needed electronics enclosures for its work on the U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system (UAS). They chose a solution from SprayCool, maker of liquid-cooled tactical enclosure products, in Liberty Lake, Wash.
SprayCool won a contract to supply two SprayCool enclosures for each of the first five of 25 planned Block 30 aircraft. The enclosures will house Northrop Grumman’s processing electronics in support of the Airborne Signals Intelligence Payload (ASIP) program.
ASIP is a signals intelligence sensor payload developed by Northrop Grumman Mission Systems sector’s Electromagnetic Systems Laboratory business unit for use on the U-2 and Global Hawk unmanned vehicles.
“SprayCool enclosures allow Northrop Grumman to select from a wide range of electronics, some of which feature commercial-grade components, and field them in harsh environments like the high-altitude operation of the Global Hawk,” says Matt Gerber, president and chief executive officer of SprayCool. “They are able to do that in un-pressurized, un-conditioned air space, leaving the more valuable, but limited conditioned air space available for legacy avionics.”
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