DefenseNews:
WASHINGTON — Incumbent Raytheon will build the Army’s new missile defense radar to replace the Patriot air-and-missile defense system’s current radar as part of the service’s future Integrated Air-and-Missile Defense System.
The company has taken its years of experience refining Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology in its own Massachusetts-based foundry and designed a new radar system that will provide the Army 360-degree threat detection capability in a configuration that includes one large array in the front and two smaller arrays in the back.
The contract is worth roughly $384 million to deliver six production-representative units of the Lower Tier Air-and-Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS).
