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Despite the multi-month launcher delivery delay, the Army said its testing plan is on track and during this phase it will ensure the AIM-9X Sidewinder missile can be launched from the ground.
Northrop Wins $12M to Integrate Air Defense Systems in Poland Our Bureau 548 Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) The U.S. Department of Defense today awarded Northrop Grumman a contract worth approximately $12 million to integrate air defense systems in Poland. Work will be performed in Huntsville, Alabama, with an estimated completion date of Dec. 31, 2025. Fiscal 2020 Foreign Military Sales (Poland) funds in the amount of $11.6 million were obligated at the time of the award, a U.S. DoD release today said. The U.S. Army awarded the company $713 million ...
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 16, 2021 at 7:30 AM Photo: Courtesy of Raytheon Missiles & Defense WASHINGTON: Raytheon will soon deliver the Army’s first “production readiness” model of the new LTAMDS radar, in time for key tests this summer. By next September (2022), the first six early-model LTAMDS should have passed initial Army testing. That will allow the Lower-Tier Air & Missile Defense Sensor, to use its formal name, to be approved for “Urgent Materiel Release” to Army missile defense units. If Raytheon makes that deadline, it’ll have gone from initial contract aw...