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Northrop Grumman Announces Completion of CDR for Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, May 30th, 2023

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Northrop Grumman Announces Completion of CDR for Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability

Northrop Grumman's artist rendering of the Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (Northrop Grumman Photo)

Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on May 30 that it has completed Critical Design Review (CDR) and a software demonstration for the planned U.S. Space Force Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC). The company said on May 30 that the DARC program "now turns its focus to the factory acceptance testing of key subsystems starting later this year." Ground-based Space Domain Awareness systems are to include DARC, the Northrop Grumman Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) System telescopes, and the $1.6…

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