Artistic rendition of AEHF satellite,
courtesy of Northrop Grumman...
EMS Technologies, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: ELMG) Defense & Space (D&S) division has been awarded a contract with Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (NGAS) to provide an anti-jam beam-forming network for the fourth Lockheed Martin-built Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) spacecraft. The contract is valued at $11.5 million. EMS D&S’s nulling system will help in safeguarding the AEHF constellation’s MilsatCom architecture, as it is designed to protect the spacecraft’s tactical network from jamming and piracy. EMS’s lightweight and cost-effective nulling technology is space-qualified; it is also featured on the preceding versions of AEHF payloads. EMS D&S has achieved gold and silver supplier ratings from Northrop Grumman for the AEHF program for several years. The program demonstrates EMS D&S’s expertise in manufacturing mission-critical satellite communications subsystems, including low noise amplifier assemblies, amplitude and phase weighting, power combining, switching networks and signal nulling subsystems.