LIBERTY LAKE, Wash., Aug. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. firm Lockheed Martin is set to use SprayCool technology on the Medium Extended Air Defense System program.
Washington-based SprayCool develops how electronics are packaged, powered and cooled.
Lockheed Martin's Syracuse, N.Y., operations will use the SprayCool thermal management solution to cool electronics on the radar platform. The company is working on the MEADS new truck-mounted surveillance radar.
MEADS is designed to replace Patriot systems in the United States and Germany and the Nike Hercules system in Italy in a transatlantic cooperative effort between three countries. Officials say ground forces and fixed installations will be protected by the system against attacks by current and next-generation airborne threats. MEADS air and missile defense system is tactically mobile and transportable. The total system is designed for rapid airlift deployment and ground mobility.
"SprayCool technology enables MEADS to efficiently operate commercial, off-the-shelf, as well as very high-end, electronics densely packed on a mobile radar platform," said Matt Gerber, president and chief executive officer of SprayCool, in a company statement. "Operation of electronics in stressed, battlefield environments that are beset with extreme temperatures and airborne contamination requires a thermal management solution that supports both heating and cooling within a sealed electronics enclosure. SprayCool's technology does exactly that."
