Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Monday said it has transitioned the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) to the Missile Defense Agency, setting up plans for a decision on an Operational Baseline Capability and the final transition to the warfighter.
Lockheed Martin also said the LRDR has begun collecting space domain awareness data for the U.S. Space Force. The S-band radar can search and track multiple small objects, including ballistic missiles at long ranges, and distinguish lethal objects such as warhead from decoys.
The radar is based at Clear Space Force Station in Clear, Alaska.
LRDR was designed with an open systems architecture, which Lockheed Martin said is allowing it to add new capability to support hypersonic defense.
“LRDR is a cutting-edge asset providing the benefits of both low frequency and high frequency radars for an innovative approach to search, track, and discriminate targets,” Chandra Marshall, vice president of radar and sensor systems at Lockheed Martin, said in a statement.