FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MFEW Multifuntion Electronic Warfare
From Military & Aerospace
March 2007 Vol. 19, No.3 --
The Office of Naval Research (ONR)
is sponsoring an innovative effort, initially targeted for the DDG-1000, to
develop a multifunction electronic warfare (MFEW) system. The work builds on ONR
work started in the mid-1990s on an advanced multi-function radio frequency
concept (AMRF-C) aimed at consolidating shipboard antenna apertures for radar,
communications, and electronic warfare in order to counter the proliferation of
arrays aboard newer surface ships. An AMRF-C test suite consisting of a common
aperture and below-deck processing equipment has gone through demonstration
testing at the Naval Research Laboratory’s Chesapeake Bay test range.
The MFEW initiative will configure
the electronic surveillance (ES) component of the AMRFC to meet the ES
requirement for the DDG-1000, which faced an urgent requirement for ES
capability following the termination in 2002 of an advanced integrated
electronic warfare system (AIEWS) originally planned for the new class.
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems
Sector won a contract to build an MFEW advanced development model, which will go
through factory acceptance testing in May.
The MFEW ADM will be delivered to
the AMRF-C site at Chesapeake Bay for testing this fall prior to transition to
the Navy’s DDG-1000 program-management office for the system design and
development phase beginning in 2008.
MCH Systems Delivers MFEW ESP and RTCP
Hybrid VXS/VME64x Precision Cooled
Chassis
March 2007 -- MCH Systems has delivered to Northrop Grumman
PRB Systems, Goleta, CA two hybrid MC3000 VXS/VME64x Precision Cooled
chassis custom configured for the Electronic Surveillance Processor (ESP) for
the Multifunction Electronic Warfare systems (MFEW) Advanced Developmental Model
(ADM). MCH Systems also delivered two similar versions of the MC3000
to Northrop Grumman Electronics Systems - Rolling Meadows for the Real Time
Control Processor (RTCP) for the MFEW ADM. MCH Systems supplied the system
chassis with custom hybrid VME64/VXS backplanes, internal power supplies, cable
assemblies and board level integration and testing.
The MC3000 is the latest Mission Critical Computer
Chassis that supports VME, VXS, and CPCI configurations.
For More Information Contact:
MCH Systems, Inc.
108 Thomas Mill Road, Suite 104
Holly Springs, NC 27540
Tel: 919-577-6631
Internet:
sales@mch.us
