RF/Analog

The guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) launches a Block V Tomahawk, the weapon’s newest variant, during a missile exercise.
Sensors

Navy asks RTX Raytheon for land-attack missiles with terrain-matching guidance in $401.2 million deal

Jan. 3, 2025
Tomahawk is a long-range, all-weather, jet-powered, surface-attack subsonic cruise missile for ship- and submarine-based land-attack operations.
A U.S. Marine Corps transmission systems operator installs a 5G antenna for a demonstrat at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Pfc. Ryan Kennelly
Communications

5G takes its place leading-edge military communications systems

Jan. 2, 2025
Fifth-generation (5G) communications and networking is transforming how military forces exchange information and coordinate how they respond to threats, as 5G holds the promise...
A Navy communications expert sends messages while aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) during an exercise in 2019.
Communications

Navy chooses high-power transducers from Massa Products for ship-to-submarine underwater communications

Jan. 2, 2025
AN/WQC-2A sonar communications set, which uses TR-232C transducers, is a single-sideband general-purpose voice and continuous-wave communications set.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) sits in dry dock in Yokosuka, Japan. The TR-343 transducer is part of the AN/SQS-53C hull mounted sonar shown at the bow of the ship.
Sensors

Automatic Coating to provide tube assemblies for TR-343 sonar transducers in anti-submarine warfare (ASW)

Dec. 23, 2024
The TR-343 transducer is part of the AN/SQS-53C hull mounted sonar array subsystem, AN/SQQ-89(V) anti-submarine warfare (ASW) system.
The EC-130J TACAMO aircraft will maintain links between national command authorities and deployed nuclear forces
Communications

Northrop Grumman to build cyber security-enhanced EC-130J airborne command post for strategic communications

Dec. 20, 2024
TACAMO provides a survivable, endurable, and reliable command and control aircraft to link U.S. national command authorities and nuclear forces.