Mercury Systems, Inc. announced it has completed delivery of the processing hardware for the U.S. Army’s first six lower tier air and missile defense sensor (LTAMDS) radars, being built by Raytheon, an RTX business.
LTAMDS is the Army’s newest air and missile defense sensor that will operate on the Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense network. LTAMDS is a 360-degree, Active Electronically Scanned Array radar that provides significantly more capacity and capability against the wide range of advanced lower tier threats, including hypersonic missiles.
Mercury has provided radar processing systems to Raytheon for Patriot® radars since 2009. In 2019, the Army chose Raytheon to deliver the first six LTAMDS radars, and Raytheon tapped Mercury to develop an expanded suite of advanced electronic systems that included the radar processing platform, the beamforming platform, ethernet switching hardware and high-power amplifiers for the antenna array. In May, Mercury delivered the last of more than 160 hardware units that fulfilled its obligations under the proof of manufacturing contract.
“We are extraordinarily proud to meet our initial commitments to the LTAMDS program, which will play an enormous role in the safety and security of the U.S. and our allies for years to come,” said Mitch Stevison, EVP and president of Mercury’s of mission systems division. “The leading-edge processing technologies we pioneered for this program represent a major step forward for integrated air and missile defense.”