Northrop, Flight Technologies team up to support Brazil border security

Northrop Grumman has signed a teaming agreement with Flight Technologies Sistemas to jointly design and develop national security technologies in support of Brazil.

Under the terms of the contract, the team will provide technologies for Brazil’s integrated border monitoring system (SISFRON).

Northrop Grumman’s C4ISR Networked Systems business unit vice president Ed Bush said, "Northrop Grumman and Flight Technologies Sistemas have developed C4ISR solutions for some of the world’s most challenging environments."

"We look forward to putting that expertise to work to help Brazil maintain its border security through the SISFRON program," Bush added.

Flight Technologies Sistemas S/A co-founder and president Nei Brasil said: "This agreement with Northrop Grumman will leverage our ability to expand the portfolio of locally developed strategic products and systems, in response to our country’s growing demands in the fields of C4ISR, unmanned aerial systems and avionics systems."

Designed to provide Brazil’s borders surveillance, the SISFRON can detect smuggling, terrorism and drug trafficking activity through an integrated system of land-based radars, communications systems and unmanned air systems in border regions.

Sisfron features a network of surveillance radars, sensors, command and control communication systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

In August 2012, the Tepro consortium, formed by two Embraer defence and security companies, Savis Tecnologia and OrbiSat Indústria, was selected as the single preferred bidder for the programme.