U.S. Marine Corps orders six more G/ATOR air-defense radar systems to watch for low-observable threats

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QUANTICO MARINE BASE, Va.—U.S. Marine Corps surveillance experts are ordering six more versions of a new radar system designed to protect Marines on attack beaches from rockets, artillery, mortars, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and other low observables. Officials of the Marine Corps Systems Command at Quantico Marine Base, Va., announced a $189 million three-year contract to the Northrop Grumman Corp. Mission Systems segment in Linthicum, Md., for six full-rate production versions of the Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR).