15 May 2019: Northrop Grumman has received an order for eight Joint Threat Emitter (JTE) Units which is worth $46 million. This award is a part of the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity JTE Enhanced Delivery Initiative contract given by the US Air Force in December 2018.
JTE is a mobile air defence electronic warfare threat simulator that gives high-fidelity replication of surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery threats for aircrew training.
The contract was given to Northrop by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and consists of eight wide-band variants of the threat emitter unit, as well as retrofit kits for some existing systems.
Deliveries of the JTE are slated for US training ranges across the country and to some international locations. This will mark the second set of JTE systems delivered internationally. All work related to this contract will be performed in Buffalo.
The JTE offers a modern, reactive battlespace war environment which is designed to help train military personnel to identify and successfully counter enemy missile or artillery threats.