By MARC SHAPIRO Staff Writer
By MARC SHAPIRO Staff Writer
Capital Gazette Communications
Published
10/20/09
The Marine Corps has given Northrop Grumman a $14 million extension on its two-year project to develop a revolutionary radar system.
Courtesy photo
An artist rendering of the G/ATOR, a multi-mission radar currently being developed and tested at Northrop Grumman in Linthicum. G/ATOR, which stands for ground/air task oriented radar, will combine technologies from five different radars into one user-friendly unit.
The G/ATOR mobile radar system - ground/air task oriented radar - is the largest Marine Corps radar program ever. Northrop beat out Lockheed Martin for the $256.6 million project to develop and build the units in March 2007. The goal is to combine the attributes of five different radar systems now in use by the Corps.
"If you went out into the Marine Corps operational inventory today anywhere around the world … you would find that they are currently using six entirely different kinds...
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