Left: GDPAA, SOTM on LAV, Abrams Tank TACTICAL SOLUTIONS LAND APPLICATIONS SATCOM-ON-THE-MOVE (SOTM) GEODESIC DOME PHASED ARRAY SILHOUETTE™ Ball provides UHF SOTM systems to U.S. ANTENNA (GDPAA) The Silhouette™ Low Profile UHF SATCOM/ military forces for installation on High Ball and its industry partners designed LOS/MUOS On-The-Move Antenna is Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, the GDPAA Advanced Technology designed for integration on tactical vehicles Light Armored Vehicles and a variety of Demonstration in support of the U.S. Air to provide a ruggedized, affordable, net- naval platforms, Light Armored Vehicles, Force Satellite Control Network’s vision of an centric capability. Silhouette™ antennas and a variety of naval platforms. The Ball integrated satellite control network. Ball was feature an ultra-low profile to minimize the SOTM antenna system is designed to provide tasked to develop, integrate and demonstrate visual signature of a vehicle, clear the line military ground vehicles with worldwide technologies required to validate the GDPAA of fire for remote controlled weapons and mobile satellite communication capability concept. enable the vehicle to be easily transported by while moving at speeds of 50 miles per hour air, land or sea. Silhouette is configurable for or greater. ground and maritime platforms. left: RBD, HALE, TFSM. (AIR, LAND, SEA, SPACE) ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES RISLEY PRISM BEAM DIRECTOR (RBD) TACTICAL CRYOGENICS no replenishment of cryogens is required, ScanEagle® is a product of Insitu Inc. these cryocoolers allow extended mission The Ball tactical optical RBD provides a Ball cryogenics technologies are being times at temperatures below 25 Kelvin. wide field of regard, conformal and compact applied to tactical military intelligence, optical duplex aperture for aircraft laser surveillance and reconnaissance missions to TACTICAL FAST STEERING MIRRORS communications and laser remote sensing enhance platform and payload capabilities. (TFSM) applications. The RBD is qualified on military These include enhanced mission duration, aircraft over wide temperature extremes in altitude and sensor class. The Ball TFSM products are flight proven high vibration and shock environments. on thousands of Directed Infrared Counter CRYOGENIC ENERGY STORAGE FOR Measure systems. TFSMs are qualified for ex- LASER REMOTE SENSING UNMANNED UNDERSEA VEHICLES treme temperature, high vibration and shock Ball Flash Lidar is a flight proven, real-time, (UUV) AND HIGH ALTITUDE LONG environments on military platforms including fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, providing pre- full-motion, color 3-D imaging capability ENDURANCE (HALE) AIRCRAFT that provides the user with “Total Sight” of cision pointing and LOS image stabilization. Ball has designed high efficiency cryogenic the operational area of regard with minimal MODULAR PHASED ARRAY latency. The Total Sight™ system provides storage tanks to store liquid hydrogen and enhanced 3-D visualization for situational oxygen at cryogenic temperatures for use in TECHNOLOGIES awareness, precision tactical analysis, large and small displacement UUVs, thereby Ball is leading the industry in developing landing zone hazard detection and real-time multiplying the energy capacities of that held phased array architecture that delivers geolocation information. by batteries several times. reliable and affordable high data rate Ball was the responsible contractor for the SATCOM capabilities in a low-profile TACTICAL EO SENSORS package. We’ve engineered unique design, fabrication and testing of the liquid Ball Aerospace is an internationally recognized developer Ball has more than 40 years of experience hydrogen fuel tanks for the Boeing prototype modular, scalable sub-array building blocks ® in the design and production of Military HALE demonstration aircraft (Phantom Eye). to configure an aperture size that meets GO BEYOND WITH BALL. and manufacturer of advanced tactical Radio Frequency Specification electro-optical equipment and A report on this effort has been published airborne, maritime or ground platform antennas, microwave communication subsystems and other ruggedized sensors. Ball continues requirements for size, weight, power and jointly by Ball and Boeing, located on the our Electro-Optics products and technologies. For more than to develop the latest in military imaging website. throughput. Ball offers solutions for technology, which includes Charged Coupled each of the L, X, Ku and Ka satellite four decades, Ball has been a leader in providing specialized Devices (CCDs), Electron Multiplying CCDs TACTICAL CRYOCOOLERS frequency bands. antennas, cameras and electro-optical components, and low-light, high-definition CMOS-based Ball low temperature, high capacity achieving the highest levels of performance. Our extensive detectors in single and multi-band cameras mechanical cryocoolers offer an alternative capabilities in design, fabrication, test and production began Ball equipment has been deployed on fixed- method for cooling Long-Wavelength wing and rotary-wing aircraft, naval surface Infrared (LWIR) and Very LWIR sensors in the mid-70s. Since then, we have developed technologies vessels and UAVs. deployed aboard military platforms. Because for various military platforms, including aircraft, missiles, land vehicles and maritime and space applications. Ball Aerospace 303-939-6100 • Fax: 303-939-6104 • [email protected] • www.ball.com/aerospace Copyright 02/2017, Ball Aerospace D1666 left: F-35 Lightning II, E-2D Hawkeyes Grey Eagle UAV, and AH-64 Apache AIRCRAFT APPLICATIONS left: WorldView-1, Orion, JPSS-1. SPACE APPLICATIONS F-35 LIGHTNING II F-16 CONTROLLED RADIATION AIRLINK® X-1 WORLDVIEW-1, -2 AND -3 ORION The Suomi NPP spacecraft bus is the eighth spacecraft built by Ball on the same Ball Ball was selected to design, develop, test PATTERN ARRAY (CRPA) Leveraging the modular phased array Ball has built three WorldView next- Ball is contracted to design phased array generation commercial remote sensing antennas (PAA) for the Orion Multi-Purpose Configurable Platform core architecture. and manufacture the Communications, The Ball F-16 CRPA is a multi-element, architecture, Ball developed a complete satellites for DigitalGlobe. These spacecraft Crew Vehicle fleet and its service modules. Ball’s Tactical Solutions provided two Earth Navigation and Identification integrated anti-jam antenna designed to counter GPS X-band SATCOM on the move terminal for have provided 200,000 square miles of half- Our Orion PAA design uses proven S-band coverage antennas and two Telemetry, body aperture suite for all three variants jamming during hostile engagements. a C-130 hatch-mount. The AIRLINK® X-1 meter imagery for DigitalGlobe customers, phased array technology to meet the Tracking and Control (TT&C) antennas for the of the F-35 Lightning II. The F-35 antenna antenna leaves the hatch available for an Suomi missions. suite includes 15 antenna configurations E2-D SATCOM emergency exit and does not require aircraft including the U.S. National Geospatial Orion RF performance and environmental operating at Ultra-High Frequency Satellite The Ball-designed, Multi-Mission Advanced modification. With only an adapter plate Agency and numerous international requirements for critical land, air, marine, JPSS-1 customers. As part of this effort, Ball entry and space environments. It is derived Communications (UHF SATCOM), Line of Tactical Terminal (MATT) SATCOM antenna change, the antenna can be used with other As the next-generation polar orbiting Sight (LOS), L-band, S-band, K-band and provides highly-efficient UHF satellite platforms. Minimal system components result developed two low-gain antennas for from highly successful programs like the telemetry and control and two high-gain F-35 Lightning II, the Navy S-band shipboard satellite, the JPSS mission builds upon C-band. connectivity to the U.S. Navy’s newest in a lightweight terminal with roll on/off Ball’s successful Suomi NPP spacecraft electronic and surveillance airborne capability to support any C-130 mission. antennas for imagery downlink for each antenna, the Shuttle Radar Topography AIRLINK® spacecraft. Mission and the Shuttle Imaging Radar series by providing essential data for civil and platforms, the EA-18G Growler and the E-2D The AIRLINK® X-1 terminal operates with military weather-forecasting, storm tracking AIRLINK® is an airborne antenna system of shuttle payloads and reentry systems. Advanced Hawkeye. The MATT antenna Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) and and climate-monitoring. Ball is currently designed to provide in-flight telephone, features state-of-the art capabilities and also commercial X-band satellites providing SUOMI NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING fabricating one Earth coverage antenna, two fax and data transmission. Using the provides area surveillance, communications operational flexibility. Performance has TT&C antennas and two Ka-band high data International Maritime Satellite (INMARSAT) PARTNERSHIP (NPP) relay, search and rescue coordination and air been demonstrated with XTAR-LANT and rate antennas for the JPSS mission. system, AIRLINK® provides worldwide The Suomi NPP mission is the bridge traffic control. has received certification for operation. coverage. U.S. government customers use between the nation’s Earth Observing Additionally, the AIRLINK® X-1 terminal is the Ball AIRLINK® high-gain aeronautical UNMANNED SENSE, TRACK AND System satellites and the next generation undergoing WGS certification. system for reliable, secure,