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Northrop Grumman Eyes Improved Object Detection For Air Force Joint STARS

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, August 29th, 2017

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Northrop Grumman Eyes Improved Object Detection For Air Force Joint STARS

The E-8C JSTARS. The Air Force currently conducts ground moving target indication with the E-8. (Air Force photo)

Northrop Grumman [NOC], the prime contractor for the U.S. Air Force’s E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS), is looking to improve the ability of the ground-surveillance aircraft to detect “smaller objects,” a company official said Aug. 29.Advances in computer technology are making it possible for Northrop Grumman to tap previously underused capability in the Joint STARS radar, said Bryan Lima, Northrop Grumman’s director of manned command, control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C2ISR) programs.The radar’s limitations “were in…

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