According to a PR published by Northrop Grumman Corporation on January 10, 2023, the company has successfully demonstrated key components of the company's future Ultra-Lite Electronic Attack (EA) Prototype System.
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Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Pinckney at RIMPAC 2016. (Picture source: US DoD)
The demonstrations were conducted in collaboration with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) aboard a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer during the U.S. Navy's Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise.
The Ultra-Lite EA System is a scaled-down, onboard EA system for anti-ship missile defense for smaller ships. Multiple EA capabilities that integrated Northrop Grumman’s transceiver technology with NRL’s expeditionary EA antenna were successfully demonstrated over many RIMPAC exercise events.
Additional concept demonstrations are being conducted this month to further prove the reliability and scalability of the system.
RIMPAC, the Rim of the Pacific Exercise, is the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise. RIMPAC is held biennially during June and July of even-numbered years from Honolulu, Hawaii.
It is hosted and administered by the United States Navy's Indo-Pacific Command, headquartered at Pearl Harbor, in conjunction with the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, and Hawaii National Guard forces under the control of the Governor of Hawaii. The US invites military forces from the Pacific Rim and beyond to participate.
