Does this mean that Wedgetail is back on track?:

Radar test performance boosts Wedgetail programme
Trials of the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF's) Wedgetail airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft proved generally satisfactory during a recent air-defence exercise, although effort was required for the capability to reach operational requirements, sources close to the programme have told Jane's . The operational utility demonstration (OUD) undertaken during Exercise 'Arnhem Thunder', held in the Northern Territory from late April to mid-May, involved six sorties from Darwin by a single Wedgetail aircraft to test its multirole electronically scanned array (MESA) radar

[first posted tolink - 28 May 2009]

Or does this mean that the Wedgetail was operating:
a) With some electronics switched off to avoid whatever electro magnetic interference that is the problem ... perhaps with only the radar ...
b) With some "integration"/single integrated picture software not operating or integrated ...

???

Means they ran a field test to see if they worked out the false return discrimination problem in the radar, itself. Reading between the lines, here, it seems that they finally figured out that it wasn't the radar's fault, but that same lousy software code that's plagued the radar for the last eighteen months. When MIT Lincoln gets involved, it means somebody (AusGov) lit a fuse to a  political mine under Northrop Grumman to get that thing to work or ELSE.

 

Herald