NORAD chief seeks 3DELRR radars to fill homeland defense 'surveillance gaps' in FY-24 wish list

By Jason Sherman / March 22, 2023 at 1:24 PM
The head of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace and Defense Command has identified a $211.5 million project not funded in the Pentagon's fiscal year 2024 budget request that would buy nine Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long Range Radars to monitor domestic airspace if Congress were to provide additional funding. Gen. Glen VanHerck, the dual-hatted commander of U.S. NORTHCOM and bi-national NORAD, has identified the 3DELRR acquisition as a main project in a larger $376 million collection of FY-24 unfunded priorities...

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