U.S. Navy avionics experts are asking the BAE Systems Electronic Systems segment in Greenlawn, N.Y., to provide hundreds of identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) transponders for military aircraft under terms of an $18.3 million order announced earlier this month. Officials of the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., are awarding this contract modification to BAE Systems, which involves IFF transponders for jet fighter-bombers, helicopters, trainer aircraft, and transport aircraft.
IFF transponders transmit coded messages that identify aircraft as friendly and determines their range and bearing from ground- or air-based interrogators.
The order calls for BAE Systems to provide 300 Mode 5 capable AN/APX-117A, 118A, and 123A(V) common identification friend or foe digital transponder systems and shop-replaceable assemblies for Navy and U.S. Army aircraft...MORE
