Boeing guided bomb business is on the move
Boeing’s guided bomb business is moving forward with the conclusion of a successful test program, a new contract and a growing SDB II program.
Boeing’s guided bomb business is moving forward with the conclusion of a successful test program, a new contract and a growing SDB II program. The test program concerned the Integrated GPS Antijam System (IGAS) for the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM).
IGAS uses digital signal processing to greatly reduce the effects of GPS jamming. Developmental flight testing was completed on May 29 at China Lake, California, with the fifth of a series of JDAM drops from a Boeing F/A-18. They were undertaken under various mission and GPS-jamming scenarios, and all five bombs acquired and maintained their GPS coordinates. IGAS development will be completed this year, with deliveries planned for 2008.
