ATK/BAE Systems team wins Navy downselect to build JATAS missile-protection system for helicopters
The missile-protection system, which is designed to replace the ATK AN/AAR-47 Missile Approach Warning System, will go on the MV-22B tiltrotor aircraft, MH-60R, MH-60S, UH-1Y utility helicopters, the CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter, and the AH-1Z SuperCobra attack helicopter. Not only will JATAS protect military helicopters from shoulder-fired missiles, but it also will detect laser-guided weapons and hostile fire from small arms and rockets.
The chose the ATK/BAE Systems JATAS version after ATK and Lockheed Martin completed the technology demonstration phase of the program and completed prototype flight demonstrations. ATK and Lockheed Martin won JATAS technology development contracts in September 2009.
The ATK/BAE Systems team will do the work on JATAS full-scale development in Nashua, N.H.; Woodland Hills, Calif.; Clearwater, Fla.; Danbury, Conn.; Melbourne, Fla.; Dallas; and other sites in the U.S., and should be finished by 2015.
For more information contact ATK Defense Electronics Systems online at www.atk.com, BAE Systems Electronic Solutions at www.baesystems.com/Businesses/ElectronicSolutions, or Naval Air Systems Command at www.navair.navy.mil.
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