Northrop Grumman Techniques Corp., Annapolis, Maryland, is awarded a $17,246,905 firm-fixed-priced, cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity necessities contract for depot degree restore. This follow-on contract contains upkeep, modifications, repairs, alteration, upgrades of techniques and spares for the AN/AQS-24 Sonar Detecting Set (all variants), Widespread Put up Mission Evaluation, and Intermediate Degree Take a look at Tools to assist the Navy for the presently deployed airborne mine countermeasures legacy techniques. Work might be carried out in Annapolis, Maryland, and is predicted to be accomplished by October 2026. U.S. Naval Floor Warfare Middle – Panama Metropolis Division, Panama Metropolis, Florida, is the contracting exercise.
Northrop Grumman has three a long time of in-fleet airborne mine countermeasure expertise with 27 techniques fielded. The corporate was the primary to area electro-optic mine identification, and developed the primary long-range artificial aperture sonar for mine warfare, the primary mine warfare unmanned floor vessel (collectively with the Naval Undersea Warfare Middle) and mine warfare unmanned underwater automobiles. The AQS-24B has considerably improved picture decision, in addition to the pace of real-time sonar processing. Northrop Grumman was the primary to area electro-optic mine identification and developed the primary long-range artificial aperture sonar for mine warfare, the primary mine warfare unmanned floor vessel and mine warfare unmanned underwater automobiles.
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Northrop Grumman demonstrated an autonomy improve path for the AQS-24’s minehunting system by integrating and efficiently testing the corporate’s picture exploitation suite, incorporating state-of-the-art machine studying for computerized goal recognition (ATR) utilizing a number of ATR algorithms. Following this profitable demonstration, the U.S. Navy plans to include this new functionality into current AQS-24 minehunting techniques. These main enhancements to the U.S. Navy’s solely operational mine searching towed sonar – operating deeper, robotically detecting and reporting targets.
The MCM USV checks are forward of deliberate user-operated analysis system testing of the AQS-24 on LCSs. The corporate has a number of variations of the AQS-24 to supply mine searching capabilities for navies. The AQS-24B is a deployed system which makes use of side-scan sonar for real-time detection, localization and classification of backside and moored mines along with a laser line scanner for exact optical identification. Integration of the AQS-24 sonar with USVs permits for the real-time transmission of all AQS-24 knowledge to a distant sonar operator, who can then start real-time mission evaluation (RTMA) of all recorded mission knowledge.
