
The Army recently selected Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] to demonstrate solutions for the service’s new Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS) missile warning capability for current and future aviation platforms. The two firms’ capabilities will go through a technology demonstration and maturation effort, with the Army describing ITDS as providing “a higher resolution two color infrared sensor suite with a threat agnostic approach to aircraft survivability.” “This critical capability is required for Army aviation to maintain overmatch against…