ThalesRaytheonSystems has been awarded a $21.8 million contract by the U.S. Army to upgrade multiple AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel air defense radar systems. This award is an option to the existing upgrade contract originally awarded in June 2007.
The contract will upgrade the U.S. Army Sentinel radar transmitters, receivers and exciters and increase functional capabilities such as faster [...]
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US Navy’s Dual Band Radar Achieves X- and S-Band Milestone
For the first time, the U.S. Navy has successfully tracked targets with a multiband radar featuring a common radar suite controller.
This milestone, which took place at the Navy’s Engineering Test Center, Wallops Island, Va., was accomplished through the use of an engineering development model of the Dual Band Radar (DBR) developed by the Navy’s prime [...]
MEADS : Army would like to kill the program, but Pentagon resists
Another battle is brewing at the Pentagon over a costly weapons program that many military leaders do not want but that so far has proven difficult to kill.
After several failed attempts, the Army is trying again to cancel a $19 billion missile defense system that the United States is developing in partnership with Italy and [...]
Raytheon Wins $4.3 M for On-Dock Rail Nuclear Detectors
Under a $4.3 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Raytheon Company is developing next-generation panels that can scan rail cars to detect nuclear weapons and other materials.
The new panels are an additional configuration in Raytheon’s Advanced Spectroscopic portfolio, a series of panels that can be used in various ways to screen cars, [...]
Raytheon Wins $4.3 M for On-Dock Rail Nuclear Detectors
Under a $4.3 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Raytheon Company is developing next-generation panels that can scan rail cars to detect nuclear weapons and other materials.
The new panels are an additional configuration in Raytheon’s Advanced Spectroscopic portfolio, a series of panels that can be used in various ways to screen cars, trucks, [...]
Raytheon Awarded $16 M for Aegis Radar
The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Company two contracts that extend the company’s legacy of performance and support for the Aegis weapons system.
Under the contracts, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) will provide an AN/SPY-1 radar transmitter ordnance alteration kit to enhance the radar’s processing performance and multi-mission capability. The company will also continue its performance-based [...]
MEADS: Technology Adds New Dimension to Air Defence Radar
The transmit / receive modules developed by EADS Defence & Security (DS) for the fire control radar of the MEADS air defence system (MEADS = Medium Extended Air Defence System) have now passed their acceptance tests and are being put into serial production. EADS DS is thus the first European company to mass produce the [...]