LM Unveils Operational Prototype of U.S. Army's New EQ-36 Counterfire Target Acquisition Radar at Ausa Expo
Successful Field Tests Keep Army Radar Program on Fast Track
(Washington, DC., October 11th, 2007) -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] today unveiled its operational prototype of the U.S. Army's new Enhanced AN/TPQ-36 radar - also known as the EQ-36 Counterfire Target Acquisition Radar - at the Association for the United States Army (AUSA)'s 2007 Exposition in Washington, DC.
EQ-36 will provide Soldiers with the capability to detect, classify, track and determine the location of enemy indirect fire such as mortars, artillery and rockets - significant threats to allied Soldiers fighting the War on Terror - in either 90 degree or 360 degree modes. EQ-36 systems will eventually replace aging TPQ-36, TPQ-37 and other Cold War era radars, which only operate in limited 90 degree modes.
For its EQ-36 prototype, Lockheed Martin is leveraging the existing counterfire capabilities of partner Syracuse Research Corp.'s operational Advanced Technology Objective (ATO), a sensor system developed for the Army's Intelligence & Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) in Ft. Monmouth, NJ. In spring 2007, the prototype completed successful counterfire target acquisition testing in both 90- and 360-degree modes at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Grounds inYuma, AZ. This summer, the system also completed successful air surveillance testing at White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, NM.
"The EQ-36 program is about the Soldier," said Carl Bannar, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin's Radar Systems business. "It's about giving our highly mobile brigade combat teams the rugged, battle-ready, solid-state target acquisition radar system they need to defend against today's lethal threats. We're on the fast track with this program. While radar design and production of an engineering design model typically takes 48 months, we already have a field-tested, operational prototype for EQ-36 after only nine months."
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