U.S. Navy Awards $13.5 Million Agreement for BAE Systems’ Smart D2™ Technology
13 Dezember 2022 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
Next-generation aircraft survivability system is designed to
defeat existing and emerging threats
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems $13.5 million to
incorporate its Smart D2™ technology as part of the U.S Navy’s
ALE-47 Common Carriage program which increases expendable payload
capacity as the service converts from round to square
countermeasures. The contract is an Other Transaction Agreement
(OTA) through the Naval Aviation Systems Consortium (NASC). This is
the first purchase of Smart D2 technology by the Department of
Defense (DoD).
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The Smart D2 technology can be integrated
into an aircraft’s existing ALE-47 Airborne Countermeasures
Dispenser System—the trusted system of choice for aircraft
survivability among U.S. armed forces and international allies.
(Credit: BAE Systems)
“Aircraft survivability technology is in a race against emerging
threats,” said Don Davidson, director of the Advanced Compact
Electronic Warfare Solutions product line at BAE Systems. “Smart D2
elevates legacy systems to the technology capabilities of
next-generation smart countermeasures.”
The Smart D2 technology can be integrated into an aircraft’s
existing ALE-47 Airborne Countermeasures Dispenser System—the
trusted system of choice for aircraft survivability among U.S.
armed forces and international allies. More than 4,000 ALE-47
systems have been installed in over 30 countries.
Instead of replacing an aircraft’s entire ALE-47 system, Smart
D2 technology allows for the replacement of key elements – the
programmer, sequencer, dispenser, and expendables. The programmer
contains a regularly-updated database of known threats and
identifies the appropriate payload, quantity, and dispensing
intervals of each countermeasure. It also provides two-way
communication of mission-critical information to enable pilots to
make more informed decisions on the spot.
Smart D2 technology supports the U.S. Navy conversion to
countermeasure expendables with the same square form factor as the
U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army. The Smart D2 sequencer and square
style dispenser are a form and fit replacement to the current
ALE-47 sequencer and dispenser for the U.S. Navy’s effort under the
NASC OTA. Smart D2 will be deployed on USN rotary and fixed-wing
aircraft and is also designed to operate on future platforms.
Work on Smart D2 under the ALE-47 Common Carriage program is
underway at BAE Systems’ state-of-the-art facility in Austin,
Texas.
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