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It’s one thing to hear that a project is going well. But it’s much better to see it for yourself – and to have a chance to make it even better.

That was the thinking behind the Soldier Touchpoint, a September meeting of a group of Army soldiers and the Raytheon Missiles & Defense team that is building the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, called LTAMDS, a next-generation radar designed to defeat newer threats such as hypersonic weapons.

The system is on time and on track. “The recent delivery of the first full-scale LTAMDS to the test site signifies LTAMDS is hitting all the marks,” Raytheon Missiles & Defense’s U.S. Requirements and Capabilities Director, Bob Kelley, said. “The actual radar is sensing, in less than a year from contract award.”

The Soldier Touchpoint event not only gave the Army team a chance to see the radar up close, it also enabled them to give crucial early feedback to inform potential improvements…

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