NEWTOWN, CT: The U.S. Navy has awarded three firm-fixed-price contracts worth a combined total of $30 million to conduct concept studies to support development of the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR). The three recipients of the contract awards are Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon.
The Department of Defense envisions the AMDR as a radar suite containing an S-band radar, a X-band radar and a Radar Suite Controller (RSC). (The RSC will perform all coordination actions to ensure that both radars operate in concert in a widely diverse environment.) The AMDR will be designed to be scalable to accommodate current and future mission requirements for multiple platforms. The AMDR-S will provide volume search, tracking, Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) discrimination and missile communications. The AMDR-X will provide horizon search, precision tracking, missile communication, and terminal illumination.
The AMDR will equip next-generation cruisers and destroyers. The Navy wants a radar that will improve the service’s capability to detect ballistic missiles as well as perform in high clutter environments and against very low observable/very low flyer (VLO/VLF) threats. The Navy also requires the radar to include active phased array technology.
Lockheed Martin’s contract (N00024-09-C-5312) is worth $10 million. Lockheed Martin will perform all work in Moorestown, N.J. Northrop Grumman’s contract (N00024-09-C-5398) is also worth $10 million. Northrop Grumman will perform all work in Linthicum Heights, Md. Raytheon’s contract (N00024-09-C-5313) is worth $9.9 million. Raytheon will perform its work in Sudbury, Mass., Fairfax, Va., Bath, Me., Andover, Mass, Tewksbury, Mass., and East Syracuse, N.Y.
All contracts were competitively procured. Work is expected to be completed in December 2009. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
