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Raytheon Submits Proposal For Army’s Patriot Radar Replacement Program

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, July 16th, 2019

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Raytheon Submits Proposal For Army’s Patriot Radar Replacement Program

Raytheon's GaN-powered AESA air and missile defense radar. Photo: Raytheon

Raytheon [RTN] has officially submitted its proposal for the Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense program to find a replacement for the Patriot system’s current radar, ahead of a prototype contract likely to be awarded this fall. The announcement follows Raytheon’s participation in a two-week “sense-off” event at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in which the company demonstrated its radar offering for Army officials. "Our proposal offers the Army a brand-new radar that overmatches the future threat,"…

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