Navy asks Safran Defense for modular-design airborne data recording hardware for a variety of naval aircraft
PATUXENT RIVER NAS, Md. – U.S. Navy airborne data storage experts needed airborne instrumentation modular data recorder system hardware for a variety of naval aircraft. They found their solution from Safran Defense and Space Inc. in Norcross, Ga.
Officials of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., announced a $47 million contract to Safran on Tuesday for data recording hardware.
Safran will provide solid-state recorders, recorder modules, cameras, connector kits, and power supplies that together form completed airborne instrumentation modular data recording systems.
These components are for the Naval Air Systems Command Special Flight Test Instrumentation Pool under the Prototyping Instrumentation and Experimentation Department for use on F/A-18, EA-18G, V-22, F-35, E-6, C-130, CH-53K, MQ-4, MQ-8, MQ-25, P-8, H-1, and MH-60 aircraft.
Safran Defense & Space Testing & Telemetry Business Unit (formerly Safran Data Systems) offers modular-design data recorders, flight test instrumentation, aircraft data management, tracking telemetry antennas, and on-the-ground data collection and analysis systems.
The company specializes in advanced onboard data acquisition, data recorders, download stations, RF receivers and recorders, and telemetry tracking antennas that can acquire, transmit, collect, and analyze data in real time.
The company's mission data management systems are intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); search and rescue; mission planning; and training.
On this contract, Safran will do the work at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., and should be finished by October 2029. For more information contact Safran Defense and Space online at www.safrandatasystemsus.com, or the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division at www.navair.navy.mil/nawcad.
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