ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon, an RTX company, has been awarded $7 million to advance development and evaluation of the company’s GhostEye® MR radar, an advanced medium-range sensor for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, or NASAMS.
These are the first government contracts for GhostEye MR, a multi-mission radar designed and developed by Raytheon through internal research and development investments. The funding will support continued development of the radar and then an operational evaluation at White Sands Missile Range later this year.
“This government support confirms the growing relevance and demand for GhostEye MR capabilities as nations around the world look to strengthen their air defense,” said Tom Laliberty, general manager, Raytheon Air and Ground Defense Systems. “In partnership with the Department of Defense, the Air Force and Kongsberg, we will showcase the sensor’s range of capabilities against a multitude of emerging threats.”
The experiment at White Sands will evaluate the operational performance of GhostEye MR, with the radar providing effective surveillance signals and integrating with the combat-proven NASAMS air defense system. This follows the successful air defense experiment at the Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) office air base in Andøya, Norway, last September, which showed NASAMS’s ability to attack and intercept various advanced air threats using multiple Raytheon and Kongsberg Defense missile types
The funding consists of a contract from the SDPE office of the US Air Force Research Laboratory and the Rapid Prototyping Program (RPP) of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
A member of Raytheon’s GhostEye family of sensors, GhostEye MR is an advanced multi-mission medium-range radar for NASAMS. The radar, introduced in 2021, provides increased range and altitude coverage to expand NASAMS defended area capabilities. Additionally, GhostEye MR leverages commonalities with the Lower Level Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) that Raytheon is building for the U.S. Army.
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