Scalable Agile Beam Radar Will Extend Viability of F-16s Beyond 2025: Northrop Grumman Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) will help extend the viability of the U.S. Air Force's F-16 fighter aircraft beyond 2025 and help ensure the F-16 remains a vital component of the nation's fighter force structure.
Skip Wagner, director of International Business Development and Strategy for Northrop Grumman's ISR and Targeting Systems Division, provided details on the radar upgrades to reporters in a briefing today at the Air Force Association's Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition 2013.
Northrop Grumman was chosen by prime contractor Lockheed Martin as the radar provider for the F-16 Combat Avionics Programmed Extension Suite (CAPES), which is an avionics modernization program designed to keep the F-16 viable in future threat environments and improve system reliability and maintainability.
CAPES program objectives are to mitigate critical future capability gaps, provide advanced electronic protection, enhance situational awareness and survivability, and provide options to meet force structure requirements with modernized F-16s. SABR contributes substantially to CAPES program objectives.
