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Raytheon resumes work on U.S. Navy Air & Missile Defense Radar (AMDR)
Raytheon resumes work on U.S. Navy Air & Missile Defense Radar (AMDR)
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Raytheon resumes work on U.S. Navy Air & Missile Defense Radar (AMDR)
Raytheon Company
has received a resume work order from the U.S. Navy to commence development
of the new Air and Missile Defense Radar. The order followed the official
Government Accountability Office update of its database to reflect
the status of the AMDR contract award protest as withdrawn.
AMDR’s
radar suite consists of an S-band radar, an X-band radar, and a radar
suite controller.
(Picture: Raytheon)
On October 10, 2013, Raytheon was awarded a $385,742,176
cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for the engineering and modeling development
phase design, development, integration, test and delivery of Air and
Missile Defense S-Band Radar (AMDR-S) and Radar Suite Controller (RSC).
AMDR is the Navy's next generation integrated air and missile defense
radar and is being designed for Flight III Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class
destroyers beginning in 2016.
"The Raytheon team and plans are in place, ready to move forward
on the program," said Raytheon's Kevin Peppe, vice president
of Integrated Defense Systems' Seapower Capability Systems business
area. "Our focus is now dedicated to delivering this critical
AMDR capability to the Navy."
AMDR is
the Navy's next generation integrated air and missile defense radar
and is being designed for Flight III Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class
destroyers beginning in 2016.
(Picture: Raytheon)
Under the contract, Raytheon will build, integrate
and test the AMDR-S and RSC Engineering Development Models (EDMs). For
the ship sets covered under this contract, the AMDR suite will integrate
with the existing AN/SPQ-9B X-band radar. The base contract begins with
design work leading to Preliminary Design Review and culminates with
system acceptance of the AMDR-S and RSC engineering development models
at the end of testing.
This contract includes options which, if exercised, would bring the
cumulative value of this contract to $1,633,363,781. Previously appropriated
FY13 funding in the amount of $156,960,000 will be obligated at time
of award. This contract includes options for manufacturing low-rate
initial production systems which may be exercised following Milestone
C planned for fiscal year 2017.
This contract was awarded following a full and open competition,
with three offers received.