DALLAS, Sept. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Jacobs (NYSE:
J) achieved an important milestone in the completion of a rigorous
flight campaign with the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management
Center for certification of Jacobs' newest version of its
proprietary KeyRadar® product in an aerial system pod called
AgilePod®. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center certified the
airworthiness of the pod for flight testing on commercially
operated aircraft under FAA airworthiness criteria, a first for
this pod.
This flight activity culminates a technical maturation phase for
the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, a program to integrate
KeyRadar into an aerial system pod and demonstrate its unique
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and target
detection/recognition capabilities from manned and unmanned
aircraft, with a self-contained, unpressurized rapid-on/rapid-off
capability.
"The integration of KeyRadar into an aerial system pod brings
unique capabilities for ISR and time-critical detection/recognition
applications," said Jacobs Critical Mission Solutions Senior Vice
President Steve Arnette. "The
completion of this flight campaign and certification represents a
successful collaboration between our newly integrated team since
acquiring KeyW and our partnership with the Air Force in delivering
advanced technical solutions to the intelligence mission."
KeyRadar is a multi-mission, multi-mode system built on a
software-defined radio/radar architecture. The radar system
combines multiple bands with sophisticated processing and
detection/recognition software to find concealed targets in the
most challenging operational environments. Jacobs' modular open
system architecture enables users to rapidly field new capabilities
to operational systems, significantly lowering total life cycle
costs. The program also demonstrated the utility of Jacobs' KeyPAD™
software which is applied in KeyRadar for automated human-made
object detection to improve system performance, reduce operator
workload and autonomously generate high-value tactical
intelligence.
The radar was packaged in the pod system – a modular, open
architecture aircraft external store – to meet Modular Open Systems
Approach (MOSA) and Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA)
standards. The radar and pod were operated in an unpressurized
environment, varying between extreme warm and extreme cold
temperatures, to include moisture saturating weather, and were
evaluated against engineering, performance and environmental
specifications.
For more information about Jacobs' radar capabilities
visit jacobs.com/technology/keyradar.
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