The regional and near-peer conflicts of the future provide a challenging environment where warfighters find themselves confronted by large numbers of advanced and highly capable drones, fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft and ballistic and cruise missiles.
Aging expeditionary radars, some of which date back to the 1970s, will not be able to outpace the growing dangers of the modern battlefield.
The solution?
Raytheon’s Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar, or 3DELRR.
The radar, which Raytheon designed and manufactured for the U.S. Air Force, is one of the first U.S. systems built from the ground-up with exportability in mind.
As a Department of Defense Design Exportability Features (DEF) Program, concurrent design enables more cost effective and timely fielding of systems for U.S. forces, allies and security partners.
Raytheon’s 3DELRR solution is a C-band Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based radar.
This combination enables warfighters to affordably detect, identify and track a wide variety of objects very accurately at great distances.
Additionally, C-band is a relatively uncongested portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, providing our warfighters additional operational flexibility.
3DELRR is interoperable with coalition systems and capable of meeting the requirements of many foreign militaries
At the end of the day, Raytheon’s innovative 3DELRR solution enables friendly forces to stay one step ahead of the evolving threat.
(Learn More about how different radars work together to enable a layered missile defense. Courtesy of Raytheon and YouTube)
As such, Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems of Woburn, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $52,686,179 fixed-price-incentive-firm engineering and manufacturing development contract for the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar System, or 3DELRR.
Raytheon will provide EMD of three 3DELRR production representative units.
Work will be performed at Raytheon’s Radio Frequency Components, a Department of Defense- accredited Category 1A Trusted Foundry for custom gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs).
The facility is a leader in producing gallium nitride components, which emit five times the radio frequency power of previous technologies – a property that could result in lighter, more powerful electronics.
The Andover facility provides a complete services solution, including circuit design, layout, modeling, fabrication, test and evaluation, module design and prototyping.
Work is expected to be complete by Nov. 30, 2020.
This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with two offers received.
Fiscal 2017 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $5,500,000 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity (FA8730-17-C-0018).
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