Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a $26-million contract to modernize the Royal Jordanian Air Force’s command, control and communications systems, the company said yesterday.
The contract was awarded by the U.S. Air Force under a foreign military sales program, and is aimed at upgrading Jordan with an integrated, real-time air picture across multiple command centers and multiple remote sites.
Lockheed Martin will be providing the Omnyx system to combine sensor, voice and data communications to provide interoperability throughout Jordan’s Air Force and other elements of its armed forces.
The system is designed to assist in detecting incoming air traffic and also provide the capabilities needed for airspace management, air sovereignty and air defense missions through radar and other data links.
“Omnyx serves as the backbone for information flow among command centers, enabling Jordanian military personnel to track and identify aircraft, evaluate any threats, and initiate or monitor airborne engagements,” said John Nikolai, director of C4 Systems for Lockheed Martin’s Mission Systems & Sensors unit.
“The system will provide enhanced situational awareness of Jordanian airspace at all times,” he said.
Omnyx is completely comprised of commercial hardware and its service oriented architecture and open standards make the system easy to modify and interoperable with existing and future coalition forces, Lockheed Martin said.