Raytheon has delivered to the Air Force the first prototype of an Aircraft Self Protection Security System (ASPSS) intended to provide electronic perimeter security for aircraft. The technology uses near object detection sensor technology—part of a four-sensor, portable package that recently passed tests at Eglin AFB, Fla. The sensors provide overlapping 360-degree coverage of a single aircraft, with more sensors available to be arranged for multiple aircraft. The ASPSS would aid USAF security forces, which would carry an annunciator—a handheld display unit and communicator—to warn them of the proximity of threats—people or vehicles out to 100 meters or more.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
