Huntsville’s BAE Systems Delivers 400 Threat Detection Systems for US Army Helicopters

Huntsville’s BAE Systems has delivered a threat detection and warning system to the U.S. Army’s helicopter fleet.

The company delivered to the Army 400 of its 2-Color Advanced Warning Systems (2CAWS). The technology is part of the Limited Interim Missile Warning System (LIMWS) program. BAE Systems designed, developed, and delivered 2CAWS to protect U.S. Army utility, heavy-lift, and attack helicopters.

Work on the technology was conducted at the company’s facilities in Huntsville and Merrimack, N.H.

The advanced aircraft survivability systems have proven themselves in combat, defeating sophisticated missile threats, the company said.

The systems use modern multi-spectral sensors, a high-speed digital backbone, and machine learning algorithms to quickly and accurately detect threats and cue laser-based and expendable countermeasures.

“Protecting U.S. Army helicopters is core to our mission,” Dave Harrold, vice president and general manager of Countermeasure & Electromagnetic Attack Solutions at BAE Systems said. “We’ve worked closely with Army Aviation to provide cutting-edge capabilities that protect crews from evolving threats, provide adversarial overmatch, and enable warfighters to execute missions in contested battlespace.”

2CAWS-equipped aircraft have successfully flown thousands of hours in operational environments.

BAE Systems’ Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) is currently on thousands of U.S. Army and international armed forces’ aircraft, and has demonstrated its effectiveness and reliability over millions of flight hours.

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