US Navy Awards Raytheon Contract to Develop Radar System

Raytheon Co. (Lexington, MA) has won a $7.4 million contract to develop a prototype High Power Discriminator (HPD) radar for the US Navy as an alternative to reduce risk in the Navy Theater Wide Theater Ballistic Missile Defense program.

The HPD concept is a ship-based, X-Band radar that provides long-range detection, tracking, and discrimination of advanced theater ballistic missile (TBM) threats. HPD takes advantage of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization's substantial investment in the Theater High-Altitude Air Defense (Thaad) radar by leveraging proven active array technologies and complex theater missile defense software. The HPD radar would work as an adjunct radar within the Aegis Weapon System to counter the most advanced long-range TBM targets.

Under the four-year contract, Raytheon will, if fully funded, design, develop, fabricate, and test a radar prototype. If fully funded, the radar will undergo extensive testing at a land-based site and at sea. The contract cannot exceed $118 million.