MOORESTOWN, N.J., Dec. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed
Martin (NYSE: LMT) was awarded a $585
million contract by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to
design, develop and deliver its Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii
(HDR-H) in Oahu, Hawaii.
The HDR-H radar will provide autonomous acquisition and
persistent precision tracking and discrimination to optimize the
defensive capability of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS)
and counter evolving threats.
"Lockheed Martin will leverage the development of our Long Range
Discrimination Radar (LRDR) to provide the lowest risk and best
value HDR-H solution to MDA, which includes open, scalable
architecture for future growth," said Chandra Marshall, program director for Lockheed
Martin's Missile Defense Radars market segment.
LRDR is currently under construction in Clear, Alaska, and is scheduled for an on-time
delivery in 2020. The system's open architecture design will enable
future growth to keep pace with emerging threats.
"LRDR completed a key milestone in August, successfully
searching for, acquiring and tracking numerous satellites, known as
a closed loop track, confirming our design is complete, mature and
ready for full rate production in 2019," said Marshall.
The work for HDR-H will be performed in Moorestown, New Jersey, and Oahu, Hawaii.
As a proven world leader in systems integration and development
of air and missile defense systems and technologies, Lockheed
Martin delivers high-quality missile defense
solutions that protect citizens, critical assets and deployed
forces from current and future threats. The company's experience
spans missile design and production, hit-to-kill capabilities,
infrared seekers, command and control/battle management, and
communications, precision pointing and tracking optics, radar and
signal processing, as well as threat-representative targets for
missile defense tests.
About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda,
Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace
company that employs approximately 100,000 people worldwide and is
principally engaged in the research, design, development,
manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology
systems, products and services. This year the company received
three Edison Awards for ground-breaking innovations in autonomy,
satellite technology and directed energy.
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