Northrop Grumman Methods Corp., Woodland Hills, California, is awarded a $30,919,420 firm-price-incentive-fee contract to acquire 25 Hyperlink 16 B kits; three Hyperlink 16 B package spares; and two Hyperlink 16 flight coaching machine B kits in assist of UH-1Y and AH-1Z helicopter modification efforts for the U.S. Navy. This contract additionally offers Hyperlink-16 methods engineering, program administration, and logistics assist. Fiscal 2021 plane procurement (U.S. Navy) funds within the quantity of $30,919,420 will probably be obligated at time of award, none of which is able to expire on the finish of the present fiscal 12 months. The U.S. Naval Air Methods Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting exercise.
Hyperlink 16 is a army tactical information hyperlink community utilized by NATO and nations allowed by the MIDS Worldwide Program Workplace (IPO). Its specification is a part of the household of Tactical Knowledge Hyperlinks. With Hyperlink 16, army plane in addition to ships and floor forces might trade their tactical image in near-real time. Hyperlink 16 additionally helps the trade of textual content messages, imagery information and offers two channels of digital voice (2.4 kbit/s and/or 16 kbit/s in any mixture). Hyperlink 16 is outlined as one of many digital companies of the JTIDS / MIDS in NATO’s Standardization Settlement STANAG 5516. MIL-STD-6016 is the associated United States Division of Protection Hyperlink 16 MIL-STD.
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Northrop Grumman are a Tactical Knowledge Hyperlink (TDL) options supplier with 60 years of expertise within the design and growth of TDLs, community planning, administration and management methods for each echelon of battlefield community communications. The corporate deep understanding of community protocols, messages, and operational use has resulted in a mature and sturdy hyperlink administration product suite. Our TDL options are at present employed world-wide, utilized by each Protection and Trade to conduct TDL operations utilizing all kinds of over 30 interfaces and protocols, comparable to Hyperlink 16, Hyperlink 11, Joint Vary Extension Utility Protocol (JREAP), Variable Message Format (VMF) and Hyperlink 22.
The AH-1Z Viper assault helicopter is provided with an built-in superior hearth management system and the capability to assist a number of weapons configurations. The UH-1Y Venom multi-role utility helicopter changed the UH-1N Huey and contains the newest in know-how and manufacturing strategies to proceed the legacy of the venerable and battle-proven H-1 helicopter design. Moreover, the AH-1Z and UH-1Y share 85 % elements commonality, designed to considerably scale back life-cycle prices and the plane’s logistical footprint, whereas growing the maintainability and deployability.
