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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…

Navy Looks To Eventually Assemble Battleship At HII Newport News; Faces More Dem Opposition

The Navy told lawmakers this week it found a dry dock at HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard it thinks can use for final assembly of the new Trump-class battleship […]

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

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Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]

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Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

The Army is relooking at its “whole aviation transformation initiative,” the service’s acting chief of staff told lawmakers on Tuesday, to include its approach for future procurement of “enduring” platforms. […]