{"id":35428,"date":"2018-09-06T14:55:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/09\/06\/northrop-grumman-secures-164m-contract-to-modify-hawkeye-aircraft-for-japan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:55:04","slug":"northrop-grumman-secures-164m-contract-to-modify-hawkeye-aircraft-for-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air\/2018\/09\/06\/northrop-grumman-secures-164m-contract-to-modify-hawkeye-aircraft-for-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman secures $164M contract for Hawkeye aircraft for Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 The contract for the last of four Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft ordered by Japan<\/a> has been awarded, as the country announces plans to reorganize its airborne early warning aircraft command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Sept. 5 contract award announcement by the U.S. Department of Defense, Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $164 million firm-fixed-price modification to an existing contract for a new-build E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft . This follows similar contract awards in November 2015, July 2016 and June 2018, and brings the total procurement cost for Japan for the four E-2Ds to $633 million, not inclusive of engineering and other related costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first Japanese E-2D is currently undergoing flight tests, having made its first flight from Northrop Grumman\u2019s Aircraft Integration Center of Excellence in St. Augustine, Florida, in October 2017, with delivery expected in late 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The E-2D is the latest variant of the E-2 Hawkeye carrierborne, airborne early warning aircraft, which is already being operated by the U.S. Navy. It features a new Lockheed Martin AN\/APY-9 ultrahigh-frequency-band radar, which is able to detect and track cruise missiles and low-observable aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the Japanese aircraft are not fitted with the Cooperative Engagement Capability, or CEC, like U.S. Navy E-2Ds. CEC is a sensor network with integrated fire control capability that combines data from multiple battle-force air-search sensors on CEC-equipped units into a single, real-time, composite track picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese media has also previously reported that the Defense Ministry is looking to equip its E-2Ds and Aegis-equipped destroyers with CEC, allowing the former to guide missiles fired by the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\t