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Business/Financial

Navy Awards Three Contracts To Develop AMDR Concept

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Thursday, July 30th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein The Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Raytheon [RTN], $10 million each to perform concept studies for the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR). AMDR "is a suite being developed to fulfill integrated air and missile defense requirements for next generation cruisers and destroyers," according to the Navy's budget documents. AMDR is a Navy research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) effort. AMDR will provide multi-mission capabilities, supporting both long range, exoatmospheric detection, tracking…

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