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Navy/USMC

Marine Corps’ G/ATOR On Track For ’08 Preliminary Design Review

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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

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By Geoff Fein The Marine Corps' Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR), a three dimensional, Humvee-mounted radar designed to detect rockets, artillery and mortars, completed its system functional review (SFR) and is now preparing for preliminary design review (PDR) in early '08. G/ATOR is an effort to replace 11 existing Marine Corps radars, Anne Sandel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Integrated Warfare Systems (DASN IWS), told Defense Daily yesterday in an interview. "It's their first 3-D high mobility radar.…

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