WALLOPS ISLAND TEST FACILITY,
Va., Aug. 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and the U.S. Navy completed
the first system-level tests of SPY-6(V)2, the Enterprise Air
Surveillance Radar, at the Surface Combat System Center at
Wallops Island, VA. In the first
test the radar searched for, detected, identified and tracked
numerous targets – including commercial aircraft. In a second
exercise, the maturity of EASR integration enabled the radar to
track multiple targets continuously for several hours during a test
event involving another system.
EASR, the newest sensor in the Navy's SPY-6 family of radars,
provides simultaneous anti-air and anti-surface warfare, electronic
protection and air traffic control for aircraft carriers and
amphibious warfare ships.
"Moving quickly from radar installation at Wallops Island to 'tracks on glass' in less
than three months is a major accomplishment," said U.S. Navy
Captain Jason Hall, Program Manager
for Above Water Sensors, Program Executive Office Integrated
Warfare Systems. "The EASR program is progressing extremely well.
We are now one step closer to production and delivering the radar's
unmatched capability to the surface fleet."
Two variants of EASR are being built: a single-face rotating
array designated AN/SPY-6(V)2 for amphibious assault ships and
Nimitz class carriers, and a three fixed-face array designated
AN/SPY-6(V)3 for Ford class aircraft carriers and the future FFG(X)
guided missile frigates.
Both versions of EASR are built on scalable Radar Modular
Assembly, or RMA, technology as well as a software baseline that
has been matured through development and test successes of
AN/SPY-6(V)1, the U.S. Navy's program of record for the DDG 51
Flight III destroyers. Each RMA is a self-contained radar in a 2' x
2' x 2' box. These individual radars can integrate together to form
arrays of various sizes to address any mission on any ship.
EASR also adds air traffic control and weather capabilities to the
mature SPY-6 software baseline.
Upon completion of system-level testing in Q4 2019, EASR will
shift from the engineering and manufacturing development phase to
the production phase. The 1st delivery of AN/SPY-6(V)2 will be to
LHA-8, the America Class Amphibious Assault Ship.
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