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Aerospace
The aircraft of tomorrow will benefit from the capabilities ATK is introducing today. The company’s revolutionary fiber placement technology and other advanced composite processes are dramatically altering the face of aviation manufacturing and design worldwide. In the aircraft industry, weight and performance reign supreme and ATK has a wide array of technologies to meet the demanding requirements of this sophisticated customer set. Demonstrating the breadth and depth of its capabilities, ATK builds the wing skins for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and also designed the tooling which is used to fabricate the wing skins. The company has demonstrated a uniquely affordable, automated fiber-placement process that is capturing significant military and civilian aircraft production market share.
ATK has made the leap to the commercial aircraft industry providing composite fan containment cases for General Electric’s GEnx engine. The company is well positioned to deliver for US and international customers, as composite aircraft move from the drawing board to the flight line. From composite stiffeners and substrates to large fuselage components, ATK is committed to driving out weight for fuel efficiency and building in the strength to achieve higher performance.
Not only is ATK building the aircraft of tomorrow, it is protecting the aircraft of today from harm. The company’s advanced missile and laser warning system, the AN/AAR-47, is credited with saving dozens of aircraft and their crews from shoulder-fired missile attacks in conflict zones around the world. Next-generation systems under development at ATK will provide even more protection for aircraft in harm’s way.
In a world facing extremist threats, border incursions and civil violence, localized Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) becomes ever more important for national and international security. ATK is answering the call for affordable yet highly capable special mission aircraft that can provide real-time imagery and data to confront these emerging threats. The company’s aircraft integration operations turn aircraft both small and large into advanced ISR systems, by building unique suites of sensors and workstations on board that provide time-critical data to forces on the ground. ATK established its reputation for aircraft integration in the United States and now offers sophisticated capabilities to numerous allied and friendly nations around the globe.
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