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Raytheon Selects BAE Systems To Help Develop Air Force Dismount Detection Radar

Friday, September 28th, 2012

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Raytheon [RTN] selected BAE Systems to help develop the Air Force’s Dismount Detection Radar (DDR), according to a BAE Systems statement. BAE Systems will lead the development of the DDR’s radar command, control, processing, exploitation, dissemination and mission planning modules, company spokesman Steven LeCours said Wednesday in an email. Raytheon, DDR’s prime contractor, was awarded a $77 million contract in February to produce four radar pods with ground moving target indication and synthetic aperture radar technology. The DDR will be…

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