Defense manufacturing giant Northrop Grumman has won a US Air Force contract to design a prototype, next-generation signals intelligence sensor, the company announced on Tuesday
“The US Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract to complete the design of a next-generation signals intelligence (SIGINT) sensor for high-altitude intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms,” the company said in a news release.
Under the Air Force’s Global High-altitude Open-system Sensor Technology (GHOST) program, Northrop Grumman will deliver a design of a prototype sensor including airborne and ground components, the release explained.
“Leveraging our SAGE technology and 45 years of SIGINT mission expertise, our platform agnostic GHOST sensor is a next-generation intelligence data collection and exploitation system,” Northrop Grumman Vice President and General Manager Ben Davies said in the release.
The new sensor will incorporate innovative, open standards-based hardware and software architecture that can be scaled and configured to fly on multiple types of manned and unmanned Air Force aircraft, the company said.
