US Defence Major Raytheon Expanding Distributed Sensing Capability to LTAMDS

The United States Army has granted Raytheon a contract to expand the company's Advanced Distributed Radar (ADR) concept to include the Lower Tier Air & Missile Defence Sensor (LTAMDS).

 

"Integrating our ADR capability into LTAMDS continues the expansion of our successful software-defined aperture approach," said Colin Whelan, Raytheon's president of Advanced Technology. "Raytheon's common radar software product line model generates a library of software code that can be re-used across multiple radars, significantly reducing engineering costs and development timelines for our customers."

Raytheon's Advanced Technology team will build the software necessary to connect additional 360-degree LTAMDS radars to expand the protection of manoeuvre troops and key assets under the deal.

Raytheon initially created ADR to improve the performance of the US Navy's AN/SPY-6(V) family of radars in scattered maritime operations and to push future sensing capabilities. The team is now growing its capabilities to confront the Army's increasingly difficult threats.

Raytheon's software-defined apertures offer sophisticated sensors faster than ever before while also increasing the capabilities and flexibility of a single array through software upgrades.

The digital revolution of radar development provides benefits across all domains, including land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.