The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (a contract to complete the design of a next-generation, open standards-based signals intelligence (SIGINT) sensor for high-altitude intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms.

Under the Air Force's Global High-altitude Open-system Sensor Technology (GHOST) program, the company will deliver a design of a prototype sensor - including airborne and ground components - with an innovative, open standards-based hardware and software architecture that can be scaled and configured to fly on multiple types of manned and unmanned Air Force aircraft.

"Leveraging our SAGE technology and 45 years of SIGINT mission expertise, our platform agnostic GHOST sensor is a next-generation intelligence data collection and exploitation system," said Ben Davies, vice president and general manager, networked information solutions, Northrop Grumman.

Northrop Grumman's GHOST sensor will provide the Air Force with an agile architecture to meet today's ISR needs while supporting rapid system enhancement, testing, accreditation and integration at the speed of relevance long into the future as the dynamic battlespace changes.

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