DARPA sticks with Raytheon for next phase of MIDAS
Phase II contract follows development of a digital/RF transceiver, an aperture radar and a monolithic microwave integrated circuit.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space has won a $12.7 million contract from DARPA for Phase II of the Millimeter-Wave Digital Arrays (MIDAS) programme.
The company stated on 6 January that it expects work on Phase II to result in the development and delivery of phased-array antenna hardware for use in testing.
Each chip or element in the Raytheon solution receives and transmits and can be merged digitally to produce millimeter-wave beams, scan the RF spectrum and link various platforms in a 3D space.
DARPA awarded the MIDAS Phase I contract to Raytheon in 2018. Initial work on the programme led to development of a digital/RF transceiver, an aperture radar and a monolithic microwave integrated circuit.
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