Jay Clemens
Raytheon has been awarded a $52 million contract to extend the company“™s testing and analysis work for the U.S. Navy“™s joint precision approach landing systems program.
The goal is to approve the integration of JPALS with the F-35 joint strike fighter, Raytheon said Wednesday.
JPALS is designed to guide fixed and rotary-wing aircraft in coordination with the GPS satellite navigation system.
“Landing a high-powered, high-speed aircraft on a moving carrier in rough seas is an exceptionally difficult task,“ said Brian Hickey, Raytheon’s director of navigation and landing systems.
The system has an anti-jamming technology to help organizations maintain operations during emergency.
