The value of these sub-contracts is in excess of $10 million.
As part of this Foreign Military Sale (FMS), Goodrich will be providing its state of the art reconnaissance pod to the Polish Air and Air Defense Forces.
The podded reconnaissance system features the Goodrich DB-110 dual band, electro-optical / infrared LOROP (Long Range Oblique Photography) sensor.
This sensor is capable of imaging targets at 30,000 feet at a stand-off distance of 50 nautical miles. The system will be used to support NATO forces providing both Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA) and Time-Critical-Targeting capability (TCT).
"We are very excited about having L-3 Communications join our team. We believe that when you couple their ISR expertise and products with the products and capabilities of Goodrich, our team will provide the Polish Air and Air Defense Forces a world class reconnaissance system," said Tom Bergeron, vice president and general manager of Goodrich Surveillance & Reconnaissance Systems.
L-3 CS-West will provide Goodrich with AT-2740 Wideband Airborne Data Link Terminals and Tactical Interoperable Ground Data Link Terminals (TIGDL) for the program. The AT-2740 is a ruggedized, Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS), NATO STANAG 7085 compliant terminal for digital, point-to-point data links.
The AT-2740 provides real-time, full-duplex sensor data and voice communications at wideband rates (up to 274 Mbps) in a design that emphasizes interoperability, low weight, ruggedization, and an open, modular and scalable architecture.
The TIGDL is a trailer-mounted ground data link terminal that uses COTS components and standard architectures to receive high bandwidth sensor data from an airborne platform. The TIGDL is NATO STANAG 7085 compliant and can be operated in X or Ku band.
As part of this contract, L-3 CS-East will provide Goodrich with S/TAR RM-3000 model solid-state recorders. The RM-3000 used on the Polish program is a high-speed, digital, solid-state recorder using non-volatile flash memory.
The system, with a capacity of 96GB of storage will be NATO interoperable via STANAG 4575 and will include a SCSI over Fibre Channel record / play interface.
S/TAR systems are currently deployed domestically and internationally supporting Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) programs including the F-18 E/F SHARP (SHAred Reconnaissance Pod), F-16C Block 30 TARS (Theater Airborne Reconnaissance System) and the Swedish JAS 39 Gripen Reconnaissance program.
As previously announced in July of this year L-3's Link Simulation and Training division was awarded a $41 million contract to provide an F-16 Aircrew Training System to the Polish Air Force. The contract was awarded to L-3 by the U.S. Air Force's Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.