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Navy Taps Three Companies To Build Next-Gen Missile Radar Prototypes

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Monday, October 11th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford The Navy has awarded contracts to three competing companies to develop prototypes for next-generation radars that will improve the service's ability to thwart anti-ship and ballistic missiles. Lockheed Martin [LMT], Northrop Grumman [NOC], and Raytheon [RTN] each received a 24-month contract on Sept. 30 for the technology-demonstration phase of the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) S-band and radar suite controller (RSC). The Navy hopes to eventually have a scalable radar suite, with S-band (AMDR-S) and X-band…

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