Focusing on Radars in Ballistic Missile Defense

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The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Raytheon with a contract to perform Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) test-related activities for multiple radar platforms, the Department of defense announced.

Under this $641 million contract, Raytheon will perform planning, executing, and analyzing sensor performance in BMDS flight tests and ground tests for each test event defined in the BMDS integrated master test plan.

The radar test contract effort also includes sensors modeling and simulation activities to include Open Systems Architecture Sensor Model (OSM) and Open Systems Architecture Signal Injector (OSI) development and maintenance, integration of OSI and OSM with the simulation framework, verification and validation support, and stakeholder/event support, according to the company’s announcement on its website.

More than $3.4 million will be obligated to Raytheon at the time of award, allocated from fiscal years 2017 and 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds.