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Northrop Grumman Heralds Expected International Collaboration on DARC Radar

Northrop Grumman Heralds Expected International Collaboration on DARC Radar
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps, right, and Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles discuss Pillar 2 of the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) security partnership during a briefing in Mountain View, Calif., on Dec. 1, 2023 (DoD Photo)

Northrop Grumman's [NOC] on Jan. 11 heralded last September's signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) by the Australia, United Kingdom, U.S. (AUKUS) alliance on the company's Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC). The MoU is "to host and operate DARC as a collaboration to expand beyond what individual nations could achieve alone in one of the most critical domains for future security," Northrop Grumman said. The DARC system of three ground-based sensors is to track objects in geosynchronous orbit…

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