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Raytheon Developing New Variants of Day 2 • Tuesday • Combat-proven Excalibur October 14, 2014 By Ann Roosevelt Schedule Of Events Excalibur has revolutionized cannon artillery, making it possible to 0730-1700 engage targets precisely at long ranges while avoiding collateral damage, and AUSA REGISTRATION DESK Raytheon [RTN] is moving on more precise projectiles and a potential Navy Convention Center East and West Registration 0730-1700 variant, a company official said. AUSA TICKET PICKUP OPEN Excalibur was originally fielded Convention Center West Registration in the mid-2000s to meet an urgent 0800-0900 INTERNATIONAL MILITARY VIP INDUSTRY need in Iraq and Afghanistan. NETWORKING BREAKFAST The earlier 1a1 and ia2 versions Room 150 A (By invitation only) 0800-1100 have had successful deployments RETIREE AND VETERAN AFFAIRS and met with “rave reviews,” said COMMITTEE MEETING Paul Daniels, Raytheon Excalibur Room 103 B Excalibur Photo: Raytheon 0800-1100 Business Development manager. CHAPTER PRESIDENTS AND DELEGATES The latest variant, ib, developed over the past couple of years, was WORKSHOP Room 207 A and B approved in June for full rate production. 0830-0930 With ib in full rate production, the Army is looking beyond current CONGRESSIONAL STAFFERS BREAKFAST theaters of war and how this weapon will be employ in future, Daniels said. Room 146 A, B, and C (By invitation only) 0830-1100 The program is exceeding all its key performance parameters in range, per- THE SERGEANT MAJOR OF THE ARMY’S formance, reliability and lethality. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM Room 152 A and B “We’ve heard government employees in the acquisition business, OSD 0900-1100 level and the Army, call it a ‘model’ program,’” he said. Not because it’s ARMY STAFF SENIOR WARRANT OFFICER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FORUM perfect but because there’s a strong government industry team that when Room 150 B challenges are encountered, they are quickly and effectively prevented from 0900-1500 knocking the program off track. SMALL BUSINESS SEMINAR Room 201 While the first Excalibur projectiles were required in a hurry, the Army 0900-1700 accepted lower reliability, within 10 meters of the target, and the shell could EXHIBITS OPEN Halls A, B, C, D and E reach out about 24 km, Daniels said. “Since then, were are now averaging 0900-1700 less than 2 meters miss distance from the target, if not hitting it directly. INSTITUTE OF LAND WARFARE Reliability is 94 percent according to the most recent estimate from the PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE AUSA Pavilion, Booth 407, Exhibit Hall A

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Army and reaching out over 40 km. At same time, costs have not risen. ▶ continued from page 1 “They’ve been reduced by 60 percent from beginning of the program.” What Excalibur does is a huge change for field artillery, he said. The 1000-1130 CHIEF, ARMY RESERVE SEMINAR accuracy means one projectile is fired and the mission is accomplished. Room 145 A and B In the past, fire had to be adjusted, taking time and multiple projectiles. 1000-1200 ILW CONTEMPORARY MILITARY FORUM Meanwhile targets rarely stay still and wait. For high value targets that Room 151 A and B can move quickly, the Army wants to respond fast with immediate effects 1000-1200 further out. “A huge change, he said. ILW CONTEMPORARY MILITARY FORUM – DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY The precision means it can hit one building in an urban environ- SEMINAR ment not several, reducing potential civilian and infrastructure damage. Room 147 A and B 1130-1215 The maneuverable projectile can be shot off-set, not directly at a target, DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER RECEPTION so it can go around friendly forces or villages and it will maneuver back Halls A, B, C, D and E (ID badge required) to the target. 1230 DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER LUNCHEON Logistics are “tremendously reduced” when prosecuting a mission Ballroom (Ticket/ID badge required) with one or two projectiles instead of 10-30. 1300-1600 AUSA MILITARY FAMILY FORUM II Raytheon today is “not resting on its laurels, but thinking about Room 207 A and B what kind of capability is needed next, and developing an Excalibur S 1400–1500 MILITARY RETIREMENT PLANNING SEMINAR and a Navy variant, the N5,” he said. Both are internal R&D funded Room 103 B programs. 1430-1600 The Excalibur S program is working on a laser guided variant, DIRECTOR, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD SEMINAR which will allow the user to redirect the flight of the projectile with a Room 145 A and B laser designator, either on the ground or airborne. If the target moves the 1500-1600 ILW CONTEMPORARY MILITARY FORUM – laser can put a spot on the target and still achieve the mission, he said. DHS BREAKOUT SESSION Successful Yuma tests in early May saw the projectile fired to a grid Room 204 C location, and then if the target wasn’t where expected, it had to hand off 1500-1700 ILW CONTEMPORARY MILITARY FORUM from GPS guidance and maneuver via laser guidance to the target. This Room 151 A and B is something that has to happen very fast, particularly if shooting over 1500-1700 ILW CONTEMPORARY MILITARY FORUM a short distance. Room 147 A and B The semi-active laser guided projectile also addresses Defense 1500-1700 Department concerns over the availability of GPS and the proliferation CSM, OCAR BREAKOUT SESSION Room 150 A of jammers. If GPS is lost, there is still the laser alternative. 1500-1700 Raytheon is still doing some internal work to make sure of the CHAPTER OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING design and technology, and now is having discussions with potential Room 208 B customers about the next step, Daniels said. There’s a lot of interest on 1600-1700 the international side to have the ability to employ a precision muni- CSM, ARNG BREAKOUT SESSION Room 150 B tion. Another benefit of the dual mode projectile is that it can get close enough so when the seeker turns on it can see the energy spot on a target and provide the needed precision. “This allows you mitigate target location error,” he said. Additionally, Raytheon is working on Excalibur N5. The Navy has five inch guns on destroyers and cruisers, but they don’t have a precision projectile in the inventory. The guns also are short range. While

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www.defensedaily.com 4 Defense Daily October 14, 2014 an M45 suffer short range…M4 5 inch gun can reach out 13 nautical miles, but it’s maximum effective range is much less. Raytheon is leveraging all the work it’s done for the Army and Marines and max effect range is much less. The Excalibur N5 can leverage all the work done for Army and Marines and bring it to the Navy to give same kinds of ranges--out to 50 km, Daniels said. “There’s a tremendous amount of reuse that can go forward with in Navy, to reuse over 70 parts and components” already used by the Army and Marines. The projectile is in production, all the suppliers are up and running, the team is established, and production lines can be leveraged. There’s a lot of common- ality, especially on guidance and navigation—the brains of the projectile. It’s a huge deal to get electronics to survive the environment of gunfire, he said. It’s incredibly dif- ficult. But all that work is done and the investment has been made. The Navy can leverage what the Army has done, save money and time and field the capability. Safety and environmental testing will carry over from previous work, though there may be some additional testing to be done, but it’s not “extravagant,” he said. Actually, the G forces and pressures in a Navy gun are not as harsh as Army weapons. “We’re talking to the Navy about what we’re doing, we want to make sure that we’re headed in the right direction to meet the kind of capability that s in their interest,” Daniels said. The Excalibur N5 conducted a successful first development test in June at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, Va. “We were very pleased with it and the Navy engineering team was able to see first-hand what we’re doing,” he said. Some additional tests will be held for the rest of the year, with the goal of a full live-fire demonstration by the end of the year. Beyond the near term, Raytheon is finding a lot of interest in different terminal guidance options, he said. Potential adversaries are not standing still; they’re looking at different capability development to defeat what the U.S. brings to the battlefield, so Raytheon is always working with its customers to under- stand the next evolution. For example, there’s work being done in industry and in government on scalable effects, the ability to vary the level of effects, depending on the mission. In recent tests, all projectiles scored direct hits on their intended targets. The projectile’s reliability, lethality and range are in excess of Army requirements and at all-time highs, while the unit cost has dropped significantly during the program’s lifetime. n DEFENSE DAILY TRIAL ORDER FORM ❑ Yes! Please send me 10 FREE issues of Defense Daily TODAY! To begin your FREE trial simply complete and fax the form below to +1-301-309-3847 or email to [email protected] and mention trial code AUSA2014. ❑ I’m already convinced. Please sign me up for a subscription to Defense Daily TODAY! I’ll receive my 10 FREE issues plus, the special “Show Rate” of $2,425 for a one-year subscription of 245 issues. That’s $300.00 off the regular one-year subscription rate! IMPORTANT MONEY BACK GUARANTEE — if I am ever dissatisfied with my subscription I may cancel at any time for a 100% refund for any unmailed issues. Simply call 888-707-5812 for payment options and mention offer code: AUSA2014. Name______Job Title______Company______Address (no P.O. box, please)______City______State______Zip/Postal Code______Country______Phone (_____)______Email______

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Northrop Grumman Land Force Support Includes Modernization By Ann Roosevelt

Northrop Grumman’s [NOC] global logistics and sustainment efforts include modernization to offer innovative, affordable solutions to U.S. and allied customers, while providing high performance and readiness, company officials said. Northrop Grumman’s previous work in logistics, sustainment and training “allows us to go well beyond operational readiness” work, Gregory Schmidt, vice president and general manager, Mission Solutions and Readiness division, Northrop Grumman Technical Services said at a briefing last week. Considering that 70 per- Black Hawk Cockpit Photo: Northrop Grumman cent of military system costs are in sustaining and modernizing a system over its life cycle, Northrop Grumman looks to leverage what it has learned for modernization and upgrades. For example, the company has provided logistics support for the past 14 years at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., and also supports Fort Polk, La.,’s Joint Readiness Training Center. “We try to take all this knowledge gained” to innovate for customers, Schmidt said. For example, at Fort Irwin, they’ve just started to deploy the Ready Blue mobile app--a program that provides real-time analysis of fleet readiness, aircraft readiness and mission capability rates. Additionally, a brand new training network has been put in at Fort Irwin and Fort Polk. It is an advanced cellular network that provides real-time voice, data and video to improve situational awareness for those in a major training exercise. Northrop Grumman also is looking at modernizing the Humvee to buy back performance. Adding armor to protect troops greatly reduced mileage, required more trucks, therefore fuel convoys, and strained the original chassis. The Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) took over much of the work Humvees were doing. “We believe that the Humvee will again have a role for us for at least the next 25 years,” Schmidt said. Northrop Grumman’s solution is to provide a new chassis to allow the Humvee to regain its original performance and payload capability while maintaining its armor protection. Four vehicles have been upgraded and some are being tested. Internationally, for the past 40 years, Northrop Grumman has been working in Saudi Arabia. With the Ministry of the National Guard it has been providing training, logistics and operational support. In the past two years, the Saudi Arabian Joint Venture LLC, owned by Arab Builders for Trading and Northrop Grumman, has expanded into rotary-wing work, supporting 12 MD-530 helicopters as they are delivered, and a training brigade established in May 2013. In the last 18 months, there have been more than 2,000 flights and an accumulated 4,000 flight hours with zero safety incidents while keeping operational readiness above 90 percent, Schmidt said. Additionally, they have trained 25 pilots and 23 instructor pilots for the MD-530. Comprehensive airfield operational support begins Jan. 1, 2015, he said, as the first aviation brigade stands up. That brigade will have 12 AH-64 Apache helicopters and 24 MH-6 Little Birds, both produced by Boeing [BA], and 24 UH-60 Black Hawks produced by Sikorsky [UTX]. Jeffrey Palombo, vice president and general manager, Land and Self Protection Systems division, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, said, “In a world of few new starts…the importance of upgrades and enhancements becomes more and more relevant as we look at the platforms that are out there.” Northrop Grumman wants mature technology available now that can be quickly fielded. This reduces engineering costs up front, he said. “The design of a new capability and how it gets integrated is just as impor-

www.defensedaily.com October 14, 2014 Defense Daily 7 tant as the capability itself,” Palombo said. “It requires innovation (which is) key to affordable modernization.” Modifications must be affordable, since some changes could be expensive enough to preclude an upgrade. Over the last several years there hasn’t been much investment in electronic warfare by the Defense Department or globally, he said. Meanwhile, threats are evolving and can be less expensive than the cost of protecting an aircraft. “We have a lot of catching up to do.” For example, the Northrop Grumman AN/APR-39D(V)2 radar warning receiver has been on helicopters and aircraft for years as part of survivability equipment, Palombo said. Northrop Grumman looked at the capability they had to create a new digital radar warning receiver and backfit it into same “real estate” on a helicopter or airplane. “We drew on a suite that’s very mature; repurposed and repackaged it for the helicopter market,” he said. Dealing with mature systems does keep down the initial cost of non-recurring engineering, which is important to the United States and its allies. “When we do things like this, modernization through logistics and sustainment, we’re generally talking about innovation rather than invention,” Palombo said. The AN/APR-39 D(V)2 is not only about the electronics inside, but also about the antennas outside the aircraft and keeping rework to a minimum. For instance, cabling, brackets and the antenna locations are reused. The AN/APR 39 also has an extra electronics slot so there’s room for more--communications or RF jamming capability that can go into the existing system in lieu of adding another system. This approach “changes the survivability and upgradability” on helicopter platforms, he said. As well, Northrop Grumman will be upgrading Black Hawks under the L Digitization program, Palombo said. The legacy analog cockpit will be replaced by a digital integrated avionics glass cockpit for a Black Hawk called the UH-60V. n

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Polaris Defense Launches DAGOR Ultra-Light Combat Vehicle By Ann Roosevelt

Polaris Industries’ [PII] Polaris Defense is unveiling the DAGOR™ ultra-light combat vehicle to meet an emerging threat to Special Operation Forces and light infantry at the 2014 Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The DAGOR was designed and tested, and is now under contract and in production--in less than two years--leveraging Polaris’ off-road engineering and design capability. “The DAGOR was engineered to meet a very demanding set of light-mobility needs for our customer,” said Jed Leonard, manager of Advanced Mobility Platforms, and Polaris Defense. “It provides the optimal balance of rapid air transportability, payload and advanced mobility. The design offers our customers a modular, light-weight platform to support a variety of expeditionary missions.” The DAGOR has world-class capability in extreme off-road terrain at full payload, the company said in a statement. The purpose- DAGOR ™ Testing Photo: Polaris Defense built vehicle is designed with trophy truck-inspired suspension to carry 3,250 pounds of payload or a nine-man infantry squad at a higher rate of speed over terrain usually trav- eled on foot. This allows the warfighter to move quickly to the objective with mission-critical equipment. DAGOR’s unique design allows for ease of operation, maintenance and sustainment in support of combat operations. The vehicle uses a readily available commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) driveline, con- trols and components streamlining mechanic and operator training. The diesel/JP8 COTS engine was selected for its combination of power, weight and size. The open design of the cargo bed maximizes loading space, flexibility and access for mission-essential equipment. The vehicle curb weight is less than 4,500 pounds to maximize aircraft operational range. The width of DAGOR allows rapid loading into the CH-47 Chinook platform without modification and the weight allows it to be sling loaded under the UH-60 Black Hawk. The vehicle has completed government durability testing and is certified for CH-47 Chinook Internal Air Transport (IAT), air drop, and UH-60 Black Hawk Sling Load. “DAGOR is under contract with elements of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and international SOF customers,” said Rich Haddad, Polaris Defense General Manager. “DAGOR is larger than our previous offerings like the MRZR and MV850, and represents a step up in size for Polaris and in payload for our customers. DAGOR highlights Polaris Defense’s ability to fill an urgent need, with an affordable purpose-built MILCOTS solution that can be maintained anywhere with a COTS supply chain.” n

iRobot Aims For More Intuitive, Adaptive Robots By Ann Roosevelt

Ground robots were widely used on the battlefield in the last decade responding to very specific threats such as IEDs, but with a very different and more complex environment evolving, iRobot is moving forward to make its robots easier to operate and suitable for almost any environment, a company official said. “Over the next year…two of the biggest priorities are to focus on ways make robots more intuitive and easy to operate and adapting existing robots to new missions,” Mark Belanger, director of iRobot U.S. Government programs, said. With more than 5,000 fielded robots, the mission is going to change, and iRobot will work on how to take fielded robots and extend their mission life, he said. Many PackBots, for example, have been out a decade or more.

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“The easiest way to help acclimate warfighters to the use of robots…is to make robots easier to use, so there is less training, less operator input day-to-day.” With a family of products, “we really do feel we have a developed a platform that’s really suitable for almost any scenario,” Belanger said. The goal is to make switching from one to another as easy as possible. And, since the Army has so many robots, “we need to help the Army find ways to make robots useful.” First you have to determine what problem you’re trying to solve, he said. As robots were used on battle pretty widely in the last decade in response to very specific threat, the future holds a wide number of other missions robots could perform. While software has become much more complicated, and will continue in that vein, for the user, “we expect to become significantly easier to use a robot…and robots will become more part of our day to day lives,” Belanger said. iRobot’s AWARE 2 software has a lot in common across the robotic platforms, and the company leverages a common architecture. Users can pick up one robot, and then a different one, but they’re already familiar with how it behaves. iRobot has seen a rise in the number of missions robots are being customized for. PackBot, for example, is most widely used for EOD missions or counter-IED, but “since then we’ve seen a growing demand” for a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high- yield Explosives (CBRNE), Belanger said. “We’ll take the same base, not go design a new robot.” For example, a CBRNE kit can easily be installed and removed with just a couple of hand tools, so an operator can convert his robot in minutes. “It’s one of the beauties of having modular multi-mission platform,” he said. The military has seen what robots can do to help save lives, doing what they do best, providing situational awareness and stand-off protection. “Where we see things going in many ways, is a migration of some of the technology” into civilian law enforcement base and for first responders who face similar issues--IEDs or explosives, or the need to go into buildings and provide information back. There’s a synergy for the defense security applications that cross over to the consumer world, he said. International sales also are increasing. “Over the last two years alone, the international market has gone from being roughly 15 percent to close to 50 percent” of the business, Belanger said. During the wars overseas, the United States fought alongside coalition partners who were exposed to the robots--mostly U.S. owned--now they need their own organic capability. We’ve fielded systems to 45 or so partner nations and numbers are growing. It’s the largest growing market for us now.” n

Raytheon’s JLENS Hits Critical Milestone: Shares Data With NORAD By Ann Roosevelt

Raytheon’s [RTN] Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS) recently completed a series of laboratory tests that demonstrated the system’s radar can be integrated into North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), increasing missile defensive capabilities, drones and cruise missiles. “The lab tests proved that information from JLENS can be converted into a format that can be used by NORAD’s command and control system,” said Raytheon’s Dave Gulla, vice president of Integrated Defense Systems’ Global Integrated Sensors business area. “With JLENS providing data to NORAD, our military will have a more accurate picture of what is flying in the National Capital Region’s airspace, and be able to identify slow-and-low flying threats such as cruise missiles and drones.” The JLENS data were simulated radar tracks to an offline NORAD system simulator, officials said. JLENS is comprised of two aerostats--tethered blimps--that float at 10,000 feet. The helium filled aerostats, each nearly as long as a football field, carry powerful radars that can protect a territory roughly the size of Texas from airborne threats. JLENS provides 360-degrees of defensive radar coverage n

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