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News archive: BAE Systems Electronic Systems

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3 June The megawatt-class system combines electric propulsion components with a CT7 gas turbine engine.

GE completes hybrid-electric powertrain test ahead of flight trials

NASA-backed testing has validated a complete megawatt-class propulsion system after more than a decade of technology development.

10 July 2024 BAE Systems has delivered more than 1,700 radar warning receivers for F-16 Fighting Falcons and C-130Js over three decades, providing situational awareness and self-defense capabilities that have proven themselves in combat.

BAE Systems provides advanced radar warning receivers to USAF

The AN/ALR-56M provides broad-spectrum, long-range threat detection and adaptive filtering to isolate threat signals in dense signal environments.

6 April 2023 BAE Systems has received $491 million to produce state-of-the-art Block 4 electronic warfare (EW) systems for future F-35 Lightning II fighter jets.

Latest Lightning EW system extends situational awareness

The AN/ASQ-239 system for Block 4 Lightnings is designed and manufactured at BAE Systems' facilities in Manchester, New Hampshire and Nashua, New Hampshire.

6 April 2023 Lightweight and groundbreaking battery for commercial electric aircraft will enable efficient regional air travel.

Heart calls on BAE for regional aircraft battery development

The battery will be the first-of-its-kind to be integrated into an electric conventional takeoff and landing (eCTOL) regional aircraft, allowing it to efficiently operate with zero emissions and low noise.

23 February 2023 BAE Systems and Leonardo UK recently received U.S. government approval to develop an interoperable aircraft survivability suite consisting of the Common Missile Warning System and Miysis Directed Infrared Countermeasure System.

BAE and Leonardo integrate warning and countermeasure systems

The AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning System is produced at BAE Systems' facilities in Nashua, NH and Huntsville, Alabama. Combined with the DIRCM system it forms a potent defensive capability.

20 October 2022 BAE and Supernal teams celebrate the collaboration.

BAE onboard for Supernal's flight control computer

BAE Systems will use 40 years' experience to help define the architecture of a lightweight, fly-by-wire system for Supernal's autonomous-capable eVTOL aircraft.

1 September 2022 The P-8A Poseidon is a variant of the Boeing 737-800.

Special mission workstation qualifies to serve aboard Poseidon

Built with ultra-strong lightweight composites, the workstations improve aircraft and weapon systems' performance. They have an optimal viewing angle for both seated and standing crew members.

28 April 2022 BAE Systems will design, test, and supply energy management components for GE Aviation’s megawatt class hybrid electric propulsion system in development.

GE selects BAE for NASA's hybrid electric research

BAE Systems will provide energy storage and the high-integrity controls and cables for the demonstrator's power management system, which will be tested on CT7-9B turboprop engines.

1 July 2021 BAE Systems is providing additional EW systems, retrofit kits, and spares for the F-35 – delivering critical situational awareness and survivability capabilities.

BAE Systems boosts EW production for Lightning II

BAE Systems has so far delivered 800 state-of-the-art AN/ASQ-239 electronic warfare/countermeasure systems for the F-35 jet, providing it with critical situational awareness and survivability capabilities.

7 April 2021 Teams from BAE Systems and the U.S. Air Force conducted tests of SABER on 11 flights of an EC-130H, paving the way for a critical software upgrade to the EC-37B Compass Call.

BAE tests SABER technology for Compass Call

BAE's system is built on a suite of software defined radios using an open system architecture and will provide the backbone of the Gulfstream G550-based EC-37B's operating system.

29 October 2020 An artist's impression of BAE Systems' proposed attritable UAVs alongside the controlling aircraft.

USAF selects BAE for prototype attritable systems

Multiple vendors have now been lined up to compete for up to $400 million in orders in support of the Skyborg Vanguard Program. BAE Systems has started work at its Endicott facility.

17 September 2020 BAE Systems will design, develop, and integrate a fly-by-wire flight control system, including active inceptors, for the new AS2 aircraft.

Aerion selects BAE Systems for AS2 flight control system

BAE Systems facilities in Endicott, New York, and Rochester, U.K. will undertake the fly-by-wire flight control system development for the supersonic Aerion project, using smaller and lighter components.