Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems has been awarded a Navy contract, worth up to $723 million, to develop the Enterprise Air Surveillance (EASR), a scalable family of radars intended to replace the SPS-48 and SPS-49 rotating radars on current and future surface ships.
“The EASR will consist of two configuration variants: Variant 1, a rotating phased array; and Variant 2, a three-face fixed-phased array, according to the Department of Defense contract announcement. “Raytheon IDS will build, integrate and test an EASR engineering development model (EDM). The base contract begins with design work leading to preliminary design review, and culminating with system acceptance of the EDM at the end of testing.”
The initial four-year contract is for $92 million, expanding to $723 million if all options are exercised.
