Military & Aerospace Electronics:

Military radar experts at Summit Technical Solutions LLC in Colorado Springs, Colo., will support an ageing ground-based early warning radar system to help protect the U.S. and its allies from enemy ballistic missile attack.

Officials of the U.S. Space Force Space Operations Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., announced an $8 million order Monday to Summit Technical Solutions to operate, maintain, and support the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System (PARCS) radar at Cavalier Air Force Station, N.D.

PARCS is a large radar installation that provides ballistic missile warning and attack assessment, as well as space surveillance data to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., as well as to USSTRATCOM and regional combatant commanders.

PARCS missile-defense radar monitors and tracks more than half of all Earth-orbiting objects with its AN/FPQ-16 phased-array radar system pointed northward over Hudson Bay, and analyzes more than 20,000 tracks per day, from giant satellites to space debris…

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