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RTX Delivering Next Generation Electro-Optical DAS for F-35, As Program Looks to Organic Sustainment of AAQ-37

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RTX Delivering Next Generation Electro-Optical DAS for F-35, As Program Looks to Organic Sustainment of AAQ-37
An F-22 from the 411th Flight Test Squadron and an F-35 from the 461st Flight Test Squadron fly in the skies above Edwards AFB, Calif., as the 461st tests software applications developed for the F-22 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

RTX [RTX] began deliveries of its Next Generation Electro-Optical Distributed Aperture System (EO DAS) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter in January, as the F-35 program looks to use military personnel to help sustain the Northrop Grumman [NOC] AN/AAQ-37 DAS, which the RTX EO DAS is to replace, and the Northrop Grumman AN/APG-81 active electronically scanned array radar. The F-35 Joint Program Office declined to say whether the RTX Next Generation EO DAS has flown in any of the…

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