The Missile Defense Agency has cleared Lockheed Martin to proceed with full-rate production of sensor panels that will be stacked to create the Long Range Discrimination Radar, a $1.2 billion program to improve the Ground-based Midcourse Defense System. On Sept. 25, MDA and Lockheed conducted a final design review of the powerful S-band radar that is slated to be capable of discriminating threats at extreme distances to help guide ground-based interceptors to destroy enemy re-entry vehicles with a higher degree...
