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 by Allen Cone Washington (UPI) Jun 10, 2019
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $958 million contract to deliver 30 full-rate production Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar systems for the Marine Corps. The contract, which is under the portfolio management of Program Executive Officer Land Systems, includes spares parts and retrofit kits, the Defense Department announced Friday. Thirty-seven percent of the work will be performed at Northrop Grumman's plant in Linthicum, Md.; 28 percent in East Syracuse, N.Y.; 7 percent in Stafford Springs, Conn., and a small percentage at other cites in the United States. Work is expected to be completed by Jan. 13, 2025. Marine Corps fiscal 2019 procurement funds in the amount of $194.7 million has been obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR system provides multi-faceted detection and tracking capabilities "to enable engagement of a wide range of hostile threats, and offers robust air traffic control capabilities to ensure the safety of Marines worldwide," according to Northrop Grumman. The three-dimensional, medium-range radar system is designed to detect low-observable targets with low radar cross sections such as rockets, artillery, mortars, cruise missiles and drones. Last year, the company delivered the first system, which includes gallium nitride antenna technology, just months after the system was approved by the Marine Corps for early fielding. The current full rate production contract includes G/ATOR systems that incorporate high power, high efficiency Gallium Nitride antenna technology, as did Lot 3 deliveries before them, Northrop Grumman said.
New lidar instruments peer skyward for clues on weather and climate San Jose CA (SPX) May 22, 2019 Researchers have developed a set of diode-based lidar instruments that could help fill important gaps in meteorological observations and fuel a leap in understanding, modeling and predicting weather and climate. The instruments are particularly well suited for insights on atmospheric dynamics at the mesoscale, a size range equivalent to the area of a small city up to that of a U.S. state. Collaborators from Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman and the National Center for Atmospheric Research ... read more
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