Raytheon nabs $128M Air Force contract for Cobra King, Gray Star radars

October 23, 2019

Space Daily:

A $128 million contract for improvement of mobile sensors on U.S. Air Force radar was awarded to Raytheon Co., the Defense Department announced.

The upgrade applies to Cobra King and Gray Star’s radar platforms in use by the U.S. military and will ensure that all data collection opportunities that pass through the radar’s field of view can be captured, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

Cobra King is a state-of-the-art mobile radar system, called an active electronic scanned array, of S- and X-band phased radars in use by the Air Force Technical Applications Center. It provides radar data to the Department of Defense’s strategic community, the Missile Defense Agency and other government agencies.

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