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 Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, delivered a critical component for the F-22 Raptor, the Block 3 electronic warfare operational flight program software, to the Avionics Integration Lab in Seattle, Washington, ahead of schedule. It accompanied the upgraded hardware for the lab and the F-22 Flying Test Bed in preparation for the aircraft’s flight certification testing.
The delivery supports the F-22 team testing required to obtain the low rate initial production decision expected by the Pentagon later this year. The Block 3 software, which completed extensive static and dynamic lab testing at Sanders in Nashua, New Hampshire, is a significant portion of the overall integrated avionics software scheduled to fly onboard the F-22 in December. This delivery represents approximately fifteen percent of the OFP software scheduled to fly on the F-22 fighter.
The Block 3 delivery also included countermeasures and missile launch detection hardware and software for the F-22. The electronic warfare suite, an integral part of the advanced sensor suite, further enables Raptor pilots to achieve air dominance over any potential adversary well into the 21st century. |
