US Air Force awards Harris Corp. Space-based Radar payload design. (News from Washington).(Brief Article)

Microwave Journal, June, 2003

Harris Corp. announced that it is one of three companies awarded three-year contracts by the US Air Force to develop and demonstrate a prototype radar payload for Space-based Radar (SBR), a critical national defense program. The initial value of' the contract is $8.6 M, with options that could bring it to $88 M over the three-year period of the prototype program. The final payload design, development, production and support program for all SBR spacecraft could reach $1 B by 2013 for the winning company, which will be selected at the conclusion of the prototype phase.

Under terms of the contract with the US Air Force Space and Missile System Center (SMC) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Joint Program Office, Harris will lead the three-year study of...

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