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Army

New Cooling Unit Enables Deployment-Ready Missile Defense Radar, Raytheon Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

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New Cooling Unit Enables Deployment-Ready Missile Defense Radar, Raytheon Says

Raytheon's [RTN] 14-month early delivery of a crucial new cooling equipment unit (CEU) will give the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) a deployment-ready AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar, company officials said. The AN/TPY-2 is a high resolution, mobile, rapidly deployable X-band radar that provides long-range acquisition, precision track, and discrimination of all classes of ballistic missiles. It is integral to the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) MDA is developing. With the early-delivery CEU combined with an MDA contract for AN/TPY-2 logistics…

Congress

Warren And Sheehy Renew Call for “Right to Repair” In NDAA

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Timothy Sheehy (R-Mont.), two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), are renewing their call for “Right to Repair” language in the National […]

HASC Looks To Restrict USV Deliveries Without Navy CONOPS And Strategy

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal year 2027 defense policy draft bill aims to restrict the Navy’s use of unmanned surface vessels (USV) until it decides on key factors […]

Congress

Gaps In Army’s Tactical Counter-Drone Capabilities Remain Concern Of HASC

A draft defense policy bill released this week says the Army is fielding counter-drone capabilities for defense of fixed sites and maneuver forces but suggests that troops at the lowest […]

Army

HASC Wants Closer Look At Army’s SBMC Program, Cites Avoiding Past IVAS Missteps

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants a closer look at the Army’s Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) effort, citing support for the development program while expressing caution to avoid […]