IDEX: Northrop Grumman demonstrates latest systems

Northrop Grumman is featuring its E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and control tactical workstation at IDEX this week.

"Northrop Grumman is committed to being a trusted, long-term partner with GCC countries," said Doug Raaberg, Northrop Grumman’s UAE chief executive. "IDEX and NAVDEX 2015 are opportunities to renew those ties, shine a spotlight on our leading capabilities and work closely with our customers to enhance the security and development of the region."
A featured attraction of Northrop Grumman's IDEX exhibit will be the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and control tactical workstation, which enables visitors to simulate operating an E-2D and learn about its data-gathering features.
The exhibit will also spotlight Northrop Grumman's industry-leading radar technologies, including Longbow fire control radars for the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and ground-based radars such as the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar and the AN/TPS-78 and TPS-703 air surveillance and air traffic control radars.
Among the advanced defence electronics systems on display will be the AN/APR-39 radar warning receiver which protects a wide variety of fixed-, rotary- and tilt-wing aircraft, and the AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING pod, a combat-proven, self-contained, multisensor targeting and surveillance system.
On Tuesday Northrop Grumman and the UAE’s Higher Colleges of Technology will sign a memorandum of understanding to continue the Innovation Challenge program. This unique competition empowers college students in the UAE to design, build and fly unmanned aircraft as part of the company's support for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
The US company is also showing its upgraded helicopter cockpit. Derived from the U.S. Army's UH-60V Black Hawk program, the system allows customers to have an affordable, highly digital, integrated suite of avionics equipment. The system's integrated architecture can be applied to many platforms through a single software package.

Derived from the U.S. Army's UH-60V Black Hawk program, Northrop Grumman's upgraded helicopter cockpit virtually replicates the newer UH-60M pilot-vehicle interface, providing a common training environment, while extending the life and mission capabilities of the UH-60 platform far into the future.