MDA Seeks Info on Long-range Radar System

摘要

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has issued a request for information on a new long-range discrimination radar (LRDR) to identify threats from the Pacific region, according to a March 14 posting on the Federal Business Opportunities website. The radar is one of the pillars ot the effort by the MDAs director, U .S. Navy Vice Adm. James Syring, to "dramatically improve" the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, which serves as the primary U.S. territorial missile shield. The other pillars are a new missile warhead-busting kill vehicle and improved target discrimination capabilities. According to the notice, the LRDR will "mitigate threat evolution, as well as improve discrimination capability in the Pacific architecture, increasing the defensive capacity of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense interceptor inventory."