DRS Laurel to build shipboard missile-defense radar systems

摘要

U.S. Navy missile-defense experts are asking the DRS Laurel Technologies segment of Leonardo DRS in Johnstown, Pa., to provide AN/SPQ-9B shipboard anti-ship missile defense (ASMD) radar systems to help protect U.S. Navy surface warships from enemy anti-ship missiles. Officials of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington announced a $30.1 million order to DRS Laurel in late March to build as many as 59 AN/ SPQ-9B radar systems. DRS in April 2018 displaced Northrop Grumman Corp. as the Navy's AN/ SPQ.-9B shipboard radar contractor in a $64.3 million deal. That contract, which combined purchases for the Navy and the government of Japan, included options that could bring its cumulative value to $263 million. The AN/SPQ-9B is an X-Band pulse-Doppler frequency-agile radar that scans out to the horizon and performs simultaneous and automatic air and surface target detection and tracking of low flying anti-ship cruise missiles, surface threats, low-and- slow-flying aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and helicopters.