New Northrop radar passes key tests
Northrop Grumman’s Air and Missile Defense Radar program for the U.S. Navy has passed two technology development program reviews conducted by the company. The first review was the System Functional Review. The second was a Test Readiness Review. “These reviews demonstrate that our AMDR is on course to meet the Navy’s anti-air warfare and ballistic […]
Northrop Grumman’s Air and Missile Defense Radar program for the U.S. Navy has passed two technology development program reviews conducted by the company.
The first review was the System Functional Review. The second was a Test Readiness Review.
“These reviews demonstrate that our AMDR is on course to meet the Navy’s anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense needs for decades to come,” said Dave Perry, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s Naval and Marine Systems Division.
“Northrop Grumman has the experience and skill to deliver the lowest-risk AMDR solution with the lowest total cost of ownership.”
Northrop said that in the SFR, digital beam forming and advanced tactical software modes were demonstrated using the system’s pathfinder radar with a prototype radar suite controller. The pathfinder system was developed by Northrop for early testing of critical AMDR hardware and software technologies.
“The successful reviews showed that the AMDR design is properly defined to meet the simultaneous performance requirements of anti-air warfare and ballistic missile defense,” Perry said. “The manufacturing schedule is on track and integration and test are ahead of schedule.”
AMDR is being developed to provide enhanced ability to detect, track and engage ballistic missiles “in high clutter environments.”