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AF Awards $106M to Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon for Long-Range Radar

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The U.S. Air Force has awarded an estimated $106 million in contracts to continue developing a long-range radar for the branch, the Defense Department announced Monday.

Contractors will continue technology development work for the three-dimensional expeditionary long- range radar, review designs and demonstrate prototypes.

Awardees were:

These three companies are also prime contractors on a proposed $3 billion foreign military sale of Apache helicopters and equipment to Qatar.

According to the Air Force, this radar will replace the current TPS-75 radar for detecting, identifying, tracking and reporting aircraft and missiles to theater commanders.

Work under the firm-fixed-price contracts will occur in Liverpool, N.Y.; Linthicum Heights, Md.; and Sudbury, Mass. through Nov. 20, 2013.

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