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Raytheon Developing New Variants of Combat-proven Excalibur

By Ann Roosevelt

Excalibur has revolutionized cannon artillery, making it possible to engage targets precisely at long ranges while avoiding collateral damage, and Raytheon [RTN] is moving on more precise projectiles and a potential Navy variant, a company official said.

Excalibur was originally fielded in the mid-2000s to meet an urgent need in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The earlier 1a1 and ia2 versions have had successful deployments and met with “rave reviews,” said Paul Daniels, Raytheon Excalibur Business Development manager.

The latest variant, ib, developed over the past couple of years, was approved in June for full rate production.

With ib in full rate production, the Army is looking beyond current theaters of war and how this weapon will be employ in future, Daniels said. The program is exceeding all its key performance parameters in range, per-formance, reliability and lethality.

“We’ve heard government employees in the acquisition business, OSD level and the Army, call it a ‘model’ program,’” he said. Not because it’s perfect but because there’s a strong government industry team that when challenges are encountered, they are quickly and effectively prevented from knocking the program off track.

While the first Excalibur projectiles were required in a hurry, the Army accepted lower reliability, within 10 meters of the target, and the shell could reach out about 24 km, Daniels said. “Since then, were are now averaging less than 2 meters miss distance from the target, if not hitting it directly. Reliability is 94 percent according to the most recent estimate from the

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What Excalibur does is a huge change for field artillery, he said. The accuracy means one projectile is fired and the mission is accomplished. In the past, fire had to be adjusted, taking time and multiple projectiles. Meanwhile targets rarely stay still and wait. For high value targets that can move quickly, the Army wants to respond fast with immediate effects further out. “A huge change, he said.

The precision means it can hit one building in an urban environ-ment not several, reducing potential civilian and infrastructure damage. The maneuverable projectile can be shot off-set, not directly at a target, so it can go around friendly forces or villages and it will maneuver back to the target.

Logistics are “tremendously reduced” when prosecuting a mission with one or two projectiles instead of 10-30.

Raytheon today is “not resting on its laurels, but thinking about what kind of capability is needed next, and developing an Excalibur S and a Navy variant, the N5,” he said. Both are internal R&D funded programs.

The Excalibur S program is working on a laser guided variant, which will allow the user to redirect the flight of the projectile with a laser designator, either on the ground or airborne. If the target moves the laser can put a spot on the target and still achieve the mission, he said.

Successful Yuma tests in early May saw the projectile fired to a grid location, and then if the target wasn’t where expected, it had to hand off from GPS guidance and maneuver via laser guidance to the target. This is something that has to happen very fast, particularly if shooting over a short distance.

The semi-active laser guided projectile also addresses Defense Department concerns over the availability of GPS and the proliferation of jammers. If GPS is lost, there is still the laser alternative.

Raytheon is still doing some internal work to make sure of the design and technology, and now is having discussions with potential customers about the next step, Daniels said. There’s a lot of interest on the international side to have the ability to employ a precision muni-tion. Another benefit of the dual mode projectile is that it can get close enough so when the seeker turns on it can see the energy spot on a target and provide the needed precision.

“This allows you mitigate target location error,” he said. Additionally, Raytheon is working on Excalibur N5. The Navy has five inch guns on destroyers and

cruisers, but they don’t have a precision projectile in the inventory. The guns also are short range. While

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an M45 suffer short range…M4 5 inch gun can reach out 13 nautical miles, but it’s maximum effective range is much less. Raytheon is leveraging all the work it’s done for the Army and Marines and max effect range is much less. The Excalibur N5 can leverage all the work done for Army and Marines and bring it to the Navy to give same kinds of ranges--out to 50 km, Daniels said.

“There’s a tremendous amount of reuse that can go forward with in Navy, to reuse over 70 parts and components” already used by the Army and Marines. The projectile is in production, all the suppliers are up and running, the team is established, and production lines can be leveraged. There’s a lot of common-ality, especially on guidance and navigation—the brains of the projectile.

It’s a huge deal to get electronics to survive the environment of gunfire, he said. It’s incredibly dif-ficult. But all that work is done and the investment has been made. The Navy can leverage what the Army has done, save money and time and field the capability. Safety and environmental testing will carry over from previous work, though there may be some additional testing to be done, but it’s not “extravagant,” he said. Actually, the G forces and pressures in a Navy gun are not as harsh as Army weapons.

“We’re talking to the Navy about what we’re doing, we want to make sure that we’re headed in the right direction to meet the kind of capability that s in their interest,” Daniels said.

The Excalibur N5 conducted a successful first development test in June at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, Va.

“We were very pleased with it and the Navy engineering team was able to see first-hand what we’re doing,” he said. Some additional tests will be held for the rest of the year, with the goal of a full live-fire demonstration by the end of the year.

Beyond the near term, Raytheon is finding a lot of interest in different terminal guidance options, he said.

Potential adversaries are not standing still; they’re looking at different capability development to defeat what the U.S. brings to the battlefield, so Raytheon is always working with its customers to under-stand the next evolution.

For example, there’s work being done in industry and in government on scalable effects, the ability to vary the level of effects, depending on the mission.

In recent tests, all projectiles scored direct hits on their intended targets. The projectile’s reliabil-ity, lethality and range are in excess of Army requirements and at all-time highs, while the unit cost has dropped significantly during the program’s lifetime. n

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Northrop Grumman Land Force Support Includes ModernizationBy Ann Roosevelt

Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] global logistics and sustainment efforts include modernization to offer innovative, affordable solutions to U.S. and allied customers, while providing high performance and readi-ness, company officials said.

Northrop Grumman’s previous work in logistics, sustainment and training “allows us to go well beyond operational readiness” work, Gregory Schmidt, vice president and general manager, Mission Solutions and Readiness divi-sion, Northrop Grumman Technical Services said at a briefing last week. Considering that 70 per-cent of military system costs are in sustaining and modernizing a system over its life cycle, Northrop

Grumman looks to leverage what it has learned for modernization and upgrades.For example, the company has provided logistics support for the past 14 years at the National

Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., and also supports Fort Polk, La.,’s Joint Readiness Training Center. “We try to take all this knowledge gained” to innovate for customers, Schmidt said. For example, at

Fort Irwin, they’ve just started to deploy the Ready Blue mobile app--a program that provides real-time analysis of fleet readiness, aircraft readiness and mission capability rates.

Additionally, a brand new training network has been put in at Fort Irwin and Fort Polk. It is an advanced cellular network that provides real-time voice, data and video to improve situational awareness for those in a major training exercise.

Northrop Grumman also is looking at modernizing the Humvee to buy back performance. Adding armor to protect troops greatly reduced mileage, required more trucks, therefore fuel convoys, and strained the original chassis. The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) took over much of the work Humvees were doing.

“We believe that the Humvee will again have a role for us for at least the next 25 years,” Schmidt said. Northrop Grumman’s solution is to provide a new chassis to allow the Humvee to regain its origi-nal performance and payload capability while maintaining its armor protection. Four vehicles have been upgraded and some are being tested.

Internationally, for the past 40 years, Northrop Grumman has been working in Saudi Arabia. With the Ministry of the National Guard it has been providing training, logistics and operational support.

In the past two years, the Saudi Arabian Joint Venture LLC, owned by Arab Builders for Trading and Northrop Grumman, has expanded into rotary-wing work, supporting 12 MD-530 helicopters as they are delivered, and a training brigade established in May 2013.

In the last 18 months, there have been more than 2,000 flights and an accumulated 4,000 flight hours with zero safety incidents while keeping operational readiness above 90 percent, Schmidt said. Additionally, they have trained 25 pilots and 23 instructor pilots for the MD-530.

Comprehensive airfield operational support begins Jan. 1, 2015, he said, as the first aviation brigade stands up. That brigade will have 12 AH-64 Apache helicopters and 24 MH-6 Little Birds, both produced by Boeing [BA], and 24 UH-60 Black Hawks produced by Sikorsky [UTX].

Jeffrey Palombo, vice president and general manager, Land and Self Protection Systems division, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, said, “In a world of few new starts…the importance of upgrades and enhancements becomes more and more relevant as we look at the platforms that are out there.”

Northrop Grumman wants mature technology available now that can be quickly fielded. This reduces engineering costs up front, he said. “The design of a new capability and how it gets integrated is just as impor-

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tant as the capability itself,” Palombo said. “It requires innovation (which is) key to affordable modernization.”Modifications must be affordable, since some changes could be expensive enough to preclude an

upgrade.Over the last several years there hasn’t been much investment in electronic warfare by the Defense

Department or globally, he said. Meanwhile, threats are evolving and can be less expensive than the cost of protecting an aircraft. “We have a lot of catching up to do.”

For example, the Northrop Grumman AN/APR-39D(V)2 radar warning receiver has been on heli-copters and aircraft for years as part of survivability equipment, Palombo said. Northrop Grumman looked at the capability they had to create a new digital radar warning receiver and backfit it into same “real estate” on a helicopter or airplane.

“We drew on a suite that’s very mature; repurposed and repackaged it for the helicopter market,” he said. Dealing with mature systems does keep down the initial cost of non-recurring engineering, which is important to the United States and its allies.

“When we do things like this, modernization through logistics and sustainment, we’re generally talk-ing about innovation rather than invention,” Palombo said.

The AN/APR-39 D(V)2 is not only about the electronics inside, but also about the antennas outside the aircraft and keeping rework to a minimum. For instance, cabling, brackets and the antenna locations are reused.

The AN/APR 39 also has an extra electronics slot so there’s room for more--communications or RF jamming capability that can go into the existing system in lieu of adding another system.

This approach “changes the survivability and upgradability” on helicopter platforms, he said.As well, Northrop Grumman will be upgrading Black Hawks under the L Digitization program,

Palombo said. The legacy analog cockpit will be replaced by a digital integrated avionics glass cockpit for a Black Hawk called the UH-60V. n



Polaris Defense Launches DAGOR Ultra-Light Combat VehicleBy Ann Roosevelt

Polaris Industries’ [PII] Polaris Defense is unveiling the DAGOR™ ultra-light combat vehicle to meet an emerging threat to Special Operation Forces and light infantry at the 2014 Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

The DAGOR was designed and tested, and is now under con-tract and in production--in less than two years--leveraging Polaris’ off-road engineering and design capability.

“The DAGOR was engineered to meet a very demanding set of light-mobility needs for our customer,” said Jed Leonard, manager of Advanced Mobility Platforms, and Polaris Defense. “It provides the optimal balance of rapid air transportability, payload and advanced mobility. The design offers our customers a modular, light-weight platform to support a variety of expeditionary missions.”

The DAGOR has world-class capability in extreme off-road ter-rain at full payload, the company said in a statement. The purpose-built vehicle is designed with trophy truck-inspired suspension to carry

3,250 pounds of payload or a nine-man infantry squad at a higher rate of speed over terrain usually trav-eled on foot. This allows the warfighter to move quickly to the objective with mission-critical equipment.

DAGOR’s unique design allows for ease of operation, maintenance and sustainment in support of combat operations. The vehicle uses a readily available commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) driveline, con-trols and components streamlining mechanic and operator training. The diesel/JP8 COTS engine was selected for its combination of power, weight and size. The open design of the cargo bed maximizes load-ing space, flexibility and access for mission-essential equipment.

The vehicle curb weight is less than 4,500 pounds to maximize aircraft operational range. The width of DAGOR allows rapid loading into the CH-47 Chinook platform without modification and the weight allows it to be sling loaded under the UH-60 Black Hawk.

The vehicle has completed government durability testing and is certified for CH-47 Chinook Internal Air Transport (IAT), air drop, and UH-60 Black Hawk Sling Load.

“DAGOR is under contract with elements of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and inter-national SOF customers,” said Rich Haddad, Polaris Defense General Manager. “DAGOR is larger than our previous offerings like the MRZR and MV850, and represents a step up in size for Polaris and in pay-load for our customers. DAGOR highlights Polaris Defense’s ability to fill an urgent need, with an afford-able purpose-built MILCOTS solution that can be maintained anywhere with a COTS supply chain.” n

iRobot Aims For More Intuitive, Adaptive RobotsBy Ann Roosevelt

Ground robots were widely used on the battlefield in the last decade responding to very specific threats such as IEDs, but with a very different and more complex environment evolving, iRobot is moving forward to make its robots easier to operate and suitable for almost any environment, a company official said.

“Over the next year…two of the biggest priorities are to focus on ways make robots more intuitive and easy to operate and adapting existing robots to new missions,” Mark Belanger, director of iRobot U.S. Government programs, said.

With more than 5,000 fielded robots, the mission is going to change, and iRobot will work on how to take fielded robots and extend their mission life, he said. Many PackBots, for example, have been out a decade or more.

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“The easiest way to help acclimate warfighters to the use of robots…is to make robots easier to use, so there is less training, less operator input day-to-day.”

With a family of products, “we really do feel we have a developed a platform that’s really suitable for almost any scenario,” Belanger said. The goal is to make switching from one to another as easy as possible.

And, since the Army has so many robots, “we need to help the Army find ways to make robots useful.”First you have to determine what problem you’re trying to solve, he said.As robots were used on battle pretty widely in the last decade in response to very specific threat, the

future holds a wide number of other missions robots could perform.While software has become much more complicated, and will continue in that vein, for the user, “we

expect to become significantly easier to use a robot…and robots will become more part of our day to day lives,” Belanger said. iRobot’s AWARE 2 software has a lot in common across the robotic platforms, and the company leverages a common architecture. Users can pick up one robot, and then a different one, but they’re already familiar with how it behaves.

iRobot has seen a rise in the number of missions robots are being customized for. PackBot, for example, is most widely used for EOD missions or counter-IED, but “since then we’ve seen a grow-ing demand” for a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high- yield Explosives (CBRNE), Belanger said. “We’ll take the same base, not go design a new robot.”

For example, a CBRNE kit can easily be installed and removed with just a couple of hand tools, so an operator can convert his robot in minutes.

“It’s one of the beauties of having modular multi-mission platform,” he said.The military has seen what robots can do to help save lives, doing what they do best, providing situ-

ational awareness and stand-off protection.“Where we see things going in many ways, is a migration of some of the technology” into civilian

law enforcement base and for first responders who face similar issues--IEDs or explosives, or the need to go into buildings and provide information back.

There’s a synergy for the defense security applications that cross over to the consumer world, he said.International sales also are increasing.“Over the last two years alone, the international market has gone from being roughly 15 percent to

close to 50 percent” of the business, Belanger said. During the wars overseas, the United States fought alongside coalition partners who were exposed to the robots--mostly U.S. owned--now they need their own organic capability. We’ve fielded systems to 45 or so partner nations and numbers are growing. It’s the largest growing market for us now.” n

Raytheon’s JLENS Hits Critical Milestone: Shares Data With NORADBy Ann Roosevelt

Raytheon’s [RTN] Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS) recently completed a series of laboratory tests that demonstrated the system’s radar can be integrated into North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), increasing missile defensive capabilities, drones and cruise missiles.

“The lab tests proved that information from JLENS can be converted into a format that can be used by NORAD’s command and control system,” said Raytheon’s Dave Gulla, vice president of Integrated Defense Systems’ Global Integrated Sensors business area. “With JLENS providing data to NORAD, our military will have a more accurate picture of what is flying in the National Capital Region’s airspace, and be able to identify slow-and-low flying threats such as cruise missiles and drones.”

The JLENS data were simulated radar tracks to an offline NORAD system simulator, officials said.JLENS is comprised of two aerostats--tethered blimps--that float at 10,000 feet. The helium filled

aerostats, each nearly as long as a football field, carry powerful radars that can protect a territory roughly the size of Texas from airborne threats. JLENS provides 360-degrees of defensive radar coverage n

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