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ITT Successfully Completes Product Acceptance Testing For Swedish Radars

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

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ITT [ITT] said it has successfully completed Production Acceptance Testing (PAT) for the first system of the Reliability and Modification (REMO) 870 Program to modernize Sweden’s coastal surveillance radar systems. For the past 20 years, Sweden’s military forces have depended on ITT radars to defend against terrorists, pirates and other unwanted intruders. In May 2008, ITT began a series of design upgrades based on the company’s new LCR-2020 radar and its integrated, turnkey coastal surveillance system, the SABER-2020, the…

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