The Navy today awarded McDonnell Douglas a $324 million contract to build and install an advanced radar on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft. McDonnell Douglas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing, will build and install five full and two partial Active Electronically Scanned Array radar engineering and development models, according to a Defense Department statement. Raytheon has been developing the AESA radar. Last year, former Pentagon testing official Philip Coyle told a Senate committee that the AESA radar promised a...
