applicat ions
THERMAL MANAGEMENT
Global Technical providing thermal
management for shipboard
embedded computing
U.S. Navy shipboard electronics
experts needed ways to tap shipwide
air conditioning to provide thermal
management for onboard rackmount
embedded computing racks and
cabinets. They found their solution
from Global Technical Systems in
Virginia Beach, Va.
Officials of the Naval Air Warfare
Center Aircraft Division in Lakehurst,
N.J., announced an $11.9 million
order to Global Technical Systems
to develop and deploy an efficient
cooling system for Navy shipboard computers.
This order involves the third
phase of the Navy’s Improved,
Flexible Infrastructure Compatible,
Open-Loop Air-Cooled Computer
Rack and Cabinet project, which
seeks to eliminate standard computer cooling fans by bringing in
cooled air from the ship’s heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning
(HVAC) systems and exhausting hot
air from the top of the computer
racks near air returns.
Global Technical Systems experts
will help the Navy install and evaluate a new air conditioning and
electronics thermal-management
system appropriate for naval vessels. If tests are promising, this
MUNITIONS
Raytheon to build lightweight
missile to arm UAVs and aircraft
U.S. Air Force airborne weapons
experts are asking the Raytheon
Co. to build a lightweight missile
and glide bomb that features low
collateral damage and is suitable for launch from a variety of
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs),
military manned aircraft, and
surface warships.
Officials of the Air Force Life
Cycle Management Center at Eglin
Air Force Base, Fla., announced
a $104.9 million contract to the
Raytheon Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Ariz., to build,
test, and support the AGM-176
Griffin missile.
Griffin is a lightweight, pre-cision-guided munition that can
launch from the ground, from the
air as a rocket-powered missile,
or drop from the air as a guided
bomb. It carries a relatively small
13-pound warhead for low-collateral damage, as well as for use in
irregular warfare.
The munition comes in
two versions. Griffin A is an
unpowered precision munition
that can be dropped by aircraft
from a rear cargo door or a door-
mounted launcher. Griffin Block
II B is a short-range missile that
can be fired from UAVs as well
as manned helicopters, attack
aircraft, U.S. Air Force AC-130W
gunships, and U.S. Marine Corps
KC-130J tankers.
Griffin is less than half the
weight of a Hellfire round and
offers GPS-aided inertial guidance
and a semi-active laser seeker.
It has a 10-mile range when air-launched, and a 3-mile range
when launched from the surface.
Three Griffins can be carried in
place of one Hellfire. The Griffin
missile and launch assembly is
also lighter than the Hellfire,
allowing more to be mounted on
the Predator.
The U.S. Navy has tested the
Griffin as a laser-guided shipboard missile to attack fast-moving small boats. Raytheon also
is developing the Griffin C with
dual-mode guidance; and the
Griffin C-ER, which will be an
extended-range missile.
On this contract, Raytheon
will do the work in Tucson,
Ariz., and should be finished by
December 2018.
FOR MORE INFORMATION visit
Raytheon Missile Systems online
at www.raytheon.com.