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Marine Corps Warns Of Cost Increases on G/ATOR Radar

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, March 11th, 2015

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Marine Corps Warns Of Cost Increases on G/ATOR Radar

AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR). (Photo: Northrop Grumman)

The Marine Corps told Congress on Wednesday that the unit cost of procuring a new ground-based radar system known as G/ATOR could rise dramatically under a full return to sequestration and result in the service losing interoperability with other naval systems.Lt. Gen. Kenneth Glueck and the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for expeditionary programs, Thomas Dee, told a Senate Armed Services Committee subpanel in written testimony that sequestration could prompt irregular production schedules and cause unit costs to go…

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