Orbital ATK Delivers 500th Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile to U.S. Navy
June 06 2017 - 2:02PM
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Significant Delivery Milestone for Key
Weapon Against Surface-to-Air Threats
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies, achieved a significant milestone with the delivery of
the 500th Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) to the
U.S. Navy. AARGM provides a key capability to U.S. and allied
forces to defeat enemy surface-to-air radar systems. The occasion
was marked with a ceremony at the Orbital ATK production facility
in Northridge, California, on May 31. Attendees included 30th
Congressional District U.S. Representative Brad Sherman, Program
Manager for Direct and Time Sensitive Strike Weapons (PMA-242)
Capt. Al Mousseau, and other Navy senior executives and industry
suppliers.
“Orbital ATK has steadily increased production and delivery of
AARGM’s much-needed capability to the U.S. Navy,” said Cary
Ralston, vice president and general manager of Orbital ATK’s
Defense Electronic Systems division of the Defense Systems Group.
“Our dedicated workforce coupled with our close partnership with
the U.S. Navy, Italian Air Force, our industry partners and
suppliers has been paramount to our success. We look forward to our
continued collective success.”
"The delivery of the 500th weapon represents a commitment by
this government-industry team, from the supply base to the prime
contractor, to deliver a weapon system with a significant
warfighting capability in the Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air
Defense mission area," stated Mousseau.
AARGM is a supersonic, air-launched tactical missile system,
upgrading legacy AGM-88 HARM systems with advanced capability to
perform Destruction of Enemy Air Defense missions. AARGM is able to
rapidly engage traditional and advanced land- and sea-based
air-defense threats, as well as non-radar time-sensitive strike
targets. Leveraging a digital receiver set, GPS/INS guidance,
digital terrain data base and the game-changing millimeter wave
(MMW) terminal guidance seeker, AARGM provides the most advanced
system that can also provide pilots with in-cockpit, real-time
electronic order of battle situational awareness against today’s
modern surface-to-air threats.
AARGM is a U.S. Navy and Italian Air Force international
cooperative major acquisition program with the U.S. Navy as the
executive agent. AARGM is currently deployed and supporting
operational requirements for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps.
The missile is integrated into the weapons systems on the FA-18C/D
Hornet, FA-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft. AARGM is
anticipated to achieve Initial Operational Capability on the
Italian Air Force’s Tornado ECR aircraft in 2017.
Orbital ATK’s Defense Systems Group is an industry leader in
providing innovative and affordable precision and strike weapons,
advanced propulsion and hypersonics, missile components across
air-, sea- and land-based systems, ammunition and related energetic
products.
About Orbital ATK
Orbital ATK is a global leader in aerospace and defense
technologies. The company designs, builds and delivers space,
defense and aviation systems for customers around the world, both
as a prime contractor and merchant supplier. Its main products
include launch vehicles and related propulsion systems; missile
products, subsystems and defense electronics; precision weapons,
armament systems and ammunition; satellites and associated space
components and services; and advanced aerospace structures.
Headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, Orbital ATK employs
approximately 12,500 people in 18 states across the U.S. and in
several international locations. For more information, visit
www.orbitalatk.com.
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