The U.S. Army could pick a vendor in September to produce the Lower-Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor system, Breaking Defense reported Friday.
Daryl Youngman, deputy director of the Army™s air and missile defense cross-functional team, said at the 2019 Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama that LTAMDS is one of the service™s top four air and missile defense modernization priorities and should be open to upgrades to meet future requirements.
Three teams competed in a œsense off demonstration conducted between May and June at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and submitted their LTAMDS proposals in July. Those teams are Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), which partners with Israel-based firm Elta.
The Army expects the Patriot radar replacement to reach initial operating capability in 2022.
