Northrop Grumman wins JSTARS upgrade

Northrop Grumman has been awarded an Air Force contract to upgrade radio terminals on E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft.

Under the contract, Northrop Grumman will replace existing terminals with Air Force Tactical Receive System-Ruggedized (AFTRS-R) terminals. “The AFTRS-R capability will modernize the Integrated Broadcast Service by replacing the current Commander’s Tactical Terminal/Hybrid-Receive Only (CTT/H-R) radio,” said a Northrop Grumman news release. “The modification also addresses cryptographic modernization and diminishing manufacturing source (DMS) issues with the CTT/H-R radio.”

The delivery order was awarded under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity Joint STARS Systems Improvement Program (JSSIP) III contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force to Northrop Grumman in October 2013.

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