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Raytheon, Lockheed Martin To Compete For Air Force’s D-RAPCON Program

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

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Separate teams led by Raytheon [RTN] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said yesterday they plan on pursuing the Air Force’s Deployable Radar Approach Control (D-RAPCON) program. D-RAPCON is a deployable air traffic control (ATC) surveillance system for joint, coalition and civil aircraft worldwide. The Air Force is looking to purchase 19 deployable surveillance systems and proposals are due July 23. Raytheon said its D-RAPCON solution consists of primary and secondary ATC radars integrated with a quick set-up and deployable radar antenna,…

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