
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to conduct operational testing of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) this summer and quickly move it to Space Force for fielding, an MDA official said on Wednesday. MDA "is highly linked with the Space Force for space domain awareness," Maj. Gen. Jason Cothern, MDA's deputy director and program executive officer for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, told the Space Symposium in Colorado. "Obviously, we have sensors that bring capabilities to…