Defense News:
MOORESTOWN, New Jersey — Lockheed Martin is on schedule to deliver its massive solid-state Long-Range Discrimination Radar in 2020, according to executives who spoke Friday with reporters here.
The radar, which is being developed and tested at Lockheed’s radar manufacturing facility in Moorestown for the Missile Defense Agency, is slated to be installed at Clear Air Force Station, Alaska. Construction on the facility began in September, according to a Lockheed press release.
The radar achieved a major technical milestone in October when it successfully tracked a satellite using its hardware and software working in conjunction. Ultimately the radar will be used in conjunction with ground-based interceptors to defend the U.S. from ballistic missile attacks.
The technology that is going into LRDR is opening up new lines of business for Lockheed, said Chandra Marshall, the LRDR program director. “Not every application needs to be the size of LRDR, so it’s scalable from both a hardware and software perspective,” Marshall said.
