Raytheon has opened a new radar development facility at its Andover, Massachusetts-based site, the company announced on 6 August.
The new $72 million, 30,000sq ft facility features advanced automation technology to support complex radar testing and integration.
The facility houses two near field radar test ranges, 1.5 megawatt substation to meet power requirements of current and future radar programmes, autonomous material movement via automated guided vehicles and a dual robotic system for radar array assembly for the aerospace and defence industry.
The US Navy's AN/SPY-6 next-generation integrated air and missile defence radar, which is now in low rate initial production, is the first system to enter to the new facility.
The airborne three-domain, the two ground-based and the ¼ ATR OpenVPX-based cross-domain systems were engineered to provide real-time security across multi-domain operations.
DARPA’s Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) programme was set up to develop an autonomous tactical network and enable critical data flow in contested environments.
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The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare (JCREW) counter-improvised explosive device (C-IED) and Drone Restricted Access Using Known Electromagnetic Warfare (DRAKE) counter-UAS (CUAS) systems are mounted and dismounted RF jammers.
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