By Geoff Fein Boeing [BA] wants to keep alive an effort to install aboard a MV-22 Osprey a triple mode radar that would provide airborne early warning, ground moving target indication and sea surface surveillance, all on a modular palletized platform that could easily be rolled on and plugged into the aircraft, according to the company. "It actually represents two-thirds of the capability of a combined JSTARS, AWACS, and E-2 all in one platform," a Boeing official told Defense Daily…
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