Military & Aerospace Electronics:

Engineers at Raytheon Technologies Corp. will build an additional high-performance missile-defense radar system for the newest Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile defense battery under terms of a $243.2 million order announced Wednesday.

Officials of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., are asking the Raytheon Missiles & Defense segment in Woburn, Mass., to provide one Army/Navy Transportable Surveillance and Control Model 2 radars, better-known as the AN/TPY-2.

The AN/TPY-2 radar is designed to detect, acquire, and track incoming ballistic missiles, and uses its powerful radar and complex computer algorithms to discriminate between incoming armed missiles and decoys…



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