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Homeland Security

CBP Looking To Replace Airborne Early Warning Radar On P-3 Aircraft

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 5th, 2018

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CBP Looking To Replace Airborne Early Warning Radar On P-3 Aircraft

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) this week issued a Request for Information to industry for market research on new airborne early warning (AEW) radar for some of its P-3 surveillance aircraft typically flown in counter-drug, counter-terrorism and counter-human smuggling missions.The Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built P-3s include the company’s AN/APS-145 AEW radar on some of CBP’s fleet of 14 aircraft. The remaining P-3’s are long-range tracker variants equipped with a short to medium-range radar to help identify and track targets detected by…

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