{"id":87267,"date":"2010-03-19T19:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/northrop-grumman-installs-ehf-satcom-hardware-on-stealth-bomber\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T19:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:50:47","slug":"northrop-grumman-installs-ehf-satcom-hardware-on-stealth-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/northrop-grumman-installs-ehf-satcom-hardware-on-stealth-bomber\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman Installs EHF Satcom Hardware on Stealth Bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">[03-19-10] <strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong> technicians have begun installing the first set of hardware for a <strong>U.S. Air Force <\/strong>B-2 stealth bomber extremely high frequency (EHF) satellite communications program, Northrop Grumman announced March 17.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The EHF upgrades aim to allow the jet to send and receive battlefield information up to 100 times faster than its current satellite communications system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">Northrop Grumman is the Air Force\u2019s prime contractor for the B-2 Spirit, the flagship of the nation\u2019s long range strike arsenal, and the only combat-proven stealth platform in the current U.S. military inventory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">\u201cThe installation of EHF Increment 1 hardware also means that we\u2019re nearly done with a significant task of software development, integration and testing for the program,\u201d Dave Mazur, Northrop Grumman\u2019s vice president of long range strike and B-2 program manager, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica\">\tThe three-increment EHF Satcom program is part of an on-going effort by the Air Force and Northrop Grumman to modernize the B-2. Increment 2 involves installation of a new communications terminal and Increment 3 will integrate the B-2 into the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s Global Information Grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-19-10] Northrop Grumman technicians have begun installing the first set of hardware for a U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber extremely high frequency (EHF) satellite communications program, Northrop Grumman announced March 17.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The EHF upgrades aim to allow the jet to send and receive battlefield information up to 100 times faster than its current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}