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BALTIMORE, July 22 (UPI) -- U.S. company Lockheed Martin has received from Northrop Grumman a key software package for the F-35's sensor system.
The AN/AAQ-37 Electro-Optical Distributed Aperture System is a high resolution omni-directional infrared sensor system that provides advanced spherical situational awareness capability, including missile and aircraft detection, track and warning capabilities.
"EO-DAS is the first capability of its kind, providing pilots with unprecedented full, 360-degree, situational awareness around an aircraft," said Mark Rossi, Northrop Grumman program development director for the Joint Strike Fighter radar and Electro Optical Distributed Aperture System. "This software delivery represents the final, full-performance, operational flight program-approved version, following an in-depth, 8-year product development and test phase.
"This delivery marks the critical first step in a series of milestones that will provide the warfighter with the most game-changing technologies available in the avionics industry."
Northrop Grumman, in a news release Thursday, said the Distributed Aperture System also gives a pilot 360-degree spherical day/night vision capability, with the capability of seeing through the floor of the aircraft.
The company said it has flown the DAS on its BAC 1-11 test bed aircraft, verifying performance requirements. DAS is undergoing integration and testing at Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems Integration Laboratory in Fort Worth, Texas.
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