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Business/Financial

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Submit Final AMDR Proposals To Navy

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

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Lockheed Martin [LMT], Raytheon [RTN] and Northrop Grumman [NOC] yesterday said they submitted proposals to the Navy to design, build, integrate and test the new Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) for the future DDG-51 Flight III class destroyer. All three companies were developing AMDR under Navy development contracts issued in 2010. AMDR is the most significant upgrade planned for the Flight III DDG-51s. The scalable AMDR S-band radar and radar suite controller will provide significantly increased sensitivity for simultaneous…

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