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MDA Pushed Back LRDR Initial Fielding Again

Thursday, October 28th, 2021

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MDA Pushed Back LRDR Initial Fielding Again

Construction of the structure that will house the Missile Defense Agency’s Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) is almost finished at Clear Air Force Station in Clear, Alaska in 2020. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to begin initial fielding of a new Alaska-based missile defense radar in December 2021, a delay of three more months over previous delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Construction and integration activities of the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) ceased in March 2020 due to the pandemic, pushing back the system’s initial fielding and transfer to the Air Force into late fiscal year 2023, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said last year (Defense…

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