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BAE Systems Highlights Flight Testing of Software for Future EC-37B Compass Call

BAE Systems Highlights Flight Testing of Software for Future EC-37B Compass Call
The EC-37B Compass Call Re-Host aircraft with an EC-130H Compass Call in the background (BAE Systems Photo)

BAE Systems said this week that it "successfully flight tested" the company's Small Adaptive Bank of Electronic Resources (SABER) technology to move toward a "critical software upgrade" for Air Force fielding of BAE Systems' EC-37B Compass Call Re-Host aircraft. The Air Force and BAE Systems conducted 11 SABER flight tests aboard a legacy Lockheed Martin [LMT] EC-130H Compass Call aircraft from Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. The EC-37B is based on a General Dynamics [GD] Gulfstream business jet. "The SABER system is…

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