Recently, Northrop Grumman successfully completed the first flight campaign of its Electronically Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor (EMRIS). 

​According to the company, these flights, completed in partnership with government partners and on a government-provided aircraft, are the next stage of technology maturation for EMRIS.

The flights demonstrated the open architecture nature of EMRIS by using third-party system integration and tactical operation. In addition, new software was rapidly deployed during flights, demonstrating the reconfigurable nature of the sensor.

EMRIS was designed using common building blocks and software containerization, allowing for rapid, cost-effective production, providing these advanced capabilities to the operators quickly.

EMRIS’s fully digital Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) structure can perform multiple functions, including radar, electronic warfare, and communications, simultaneously.

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As part of EMRIS’ flights, Northrop Grumman demonstrated the ability to quickly leverage technologies developed for other programs to adapt multiple fielded capabilities into EMRIS. 

The second EMRIS array is entering testing, and Northrop Grumman is in the process of demonstrating its scalable nature by fabricating two smaller EMRIS apertures for lower cost and size-constrained application demonstrations.

EMRIS development occurred in support of a wide range of existing platform upgrades as well as new emerging opportunities.

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