The Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar under development for the Navy's aircraft carriers and amphibious ships has passed its preliminary design review, contractor Raytheon announced today.
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Justin Doubleday was managing editor of Inside the Pentagon until June 2021, where he focused on defense-wide topics including budgets, acquisition policy, combatant commands, missile defense and cyber. He has also worked for ITP sister publications Inside the Army and Inside the Navy. Justin previously reported for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2013.
The Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar under development for the Navy's aircraft carriers and amphibious ships has passed its preliminary design review, contractor Raytheon announced today.
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The new radar being developed for the Navy's guided-missile destroyers has completed its first ballistic missile tracking test, the service announced today.