Raytheon submits Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor proposal

Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA has submitted its Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor proposal to the US Army as part of the competition for a new air and missile defense radar.

The firm’s LTAMDS solution is a simultaneous 360-degree, active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar powered by Raytheon-manufactured gallium nitride (GaN), which strengthens the radar signal and enhances its sensitivity.

“Our proposal offers the Army a brand-new radar that overmatches the future threat,” says Tom Laliberty, VP of Integrated Air and Missile Defense at Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business in Tewksbury, MA, USA. “We brought our LTAMDS solution to the US Army’s sensor demonstration and validated our ability to meet their 2022 urgent material release date.”

Raytheon’s LTAMDS offering was demonstrated in a ‘sense-off’, which put it through a series of challenging scenarios. The firm completed its sense-off participation on 15 May.

“We created a new radar because a re-designed, modified or upgraded radar simply can’t defeat the type of advanced threats the US Army will face,” says Doug Burgess, Raytheon’s LTAMDS program director. “Our solution is proof that the Army can have it all — a capable next-generation radar, at an affordable price, fielded as quickly as possible.”

Raytheon assembled a team of US-based partners (Crane Aerospace & Electronics, Cummings Aerospace, IERUS Technologies, Kord Technologies, Mercury Systems and nLogic) who played a strategic role in its proposed LTAMDS solution.

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