{"id":69839,"date":"2025-05-29T22:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/05\/29\/pentagon-ends-new-radar-effort-meant-for-guam-missile-defense\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:23:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:23:50","slug":"pentagon-ends-new-radar-effort-meant-for-guam-missile-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/pentagon\/2025\/05\/29\/pentagon-ends-new-radar-effort-meant-for-guam-missile-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon ends new radar effort meant for Guam missile defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early this year, the Pentagon issued a memo halting development of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2024\/08\/20\/the-pentagon-is-shipping-new-pieces-to-guams-air-defense-puzzle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/smd\/2024\/08\/20\/the-pentagon-is-shipping-new-pieces-to-guams-air-defense-puzzle\/\">new radar meant to protect Guam<\/a> from high-end air and missile threats, according to a May 22 Government Accountability Office report on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2025\/05\/28\/no-clear-plan-for-supporting-guam-missile-defense-system-gao-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2025\/05\/28\/no-clear-plan-for-supporting-guam-missile-defense-system-gao-finds\/\">effort to protect the strategic island in the Pacific<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn January 7, 2025, the Deputy Secretary of Defense [Kathleen Hicks] directed the [Missile Defense Agency] to cease development of one of the elements, the AN\/TPY-6 radar, but to retain the currently fielded panel as an experimental asset with potential to develop for operational use within the [Guam Defense System] in the future,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Hicks\u2019 decision came at the end of her tenure under the Biden administration, GAO notes the changes are not binding on the new administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/outlook\/2023\/12\/04\/us-faces-hurdles-next-year-for-guams-missile-defense-experts-warn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/outlook\/2023\/12\/04\/us-faces-hurdles-next-year-for-guams-missile-defense-experts-warn\/\">Pentagon\u2019s plan to develop an elaborate air-and-missile defense architecture<\/a> is beginning to take shape and will be pieced together over the coming years in order to protect Guam from increasingly complex threats emerging in China and North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MDA had shipped its first AN\/TPY-6 panel on a boat headed to the island last summer, planning to use it to track a threat launched from a C-17 plane in a first flight test of current capability coming together for the defense of Guam at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new radar uses technology from MDA\u2019s Long-Range Discrimination Radar positioned in Alaska at Clear Space Force Base, which will have its own test next year ahead of declaring operational capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guam Defense System will also rely on a variety of systems still in development, mostly within the Army. The Navy will provide technology and capability from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/10\/03\/watch-the-uss-bulkeley-help-shoot-down-irans-missile-attack-on-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/10\/03\/watch-the-uss-bulkeley-help-shoot-down-irans-missile-attack-on-israel\/\">Aegis weapons system<\/a>. The land service plans to bring to Guam currently fielded capabilities, like the Patriot system and its Integrated Battle Command System, or IBCS, that connects any sensor and shooter together on the battlefield, as well as Mid-Range Capability missile launchers, which were first fielded at the end of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army will also incorporate Patriot\u2019s radar replacement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?FORM=ARPSEC&amp;PC=ARPL&amp;PTAG=30520004&amp;q=site%3Adefensenews.com%20ltamds%20to%20guam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?FORM=ARPSEC&amp;PC=ARPL&amp;PTAG=30520004&amp;q=site%3Adefensenews.com%20ltamds%20to%20guam\">the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor,<\/a> or LTAMDS, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2025\/03\/28\/army-to-make-new-missile-defense-radars-after-year-of-troubleshooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2025\/03\/28\/army-to-make-new-missile-defense-radars-after-year-of-troubleshooting\/\">just approved for production<\/a>, and its Indirect Fire Protection Capability launchers, which are reaching the end of the prototyping phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the termination of AN\/TPY-6, for now, Hicks directed the MDA prioritize remaining Aegis Guam systems development funds \u201ctoward delivering minimum viable Aegis C2 [command and control] and datalink capabilities to enable Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) engagements off remote track from AN\/TPY-2 and LTAMDS over the JTMC [Joint Track Management Capability] bridge,\u201d according to GAO\u2019s report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Pentagon\u2019s memo required upgrading the JTMC bridge to address all missile threats from China and achieve a Joint Tactical Integrated Fire Control capability \u2014 the future joint track architecture for Guam \u2014 \u201cfor coordinated battle management, combat identification and electronic protection,\u201d the report states. Those upgrades should be completed no later than 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The memo also directed MDA to accelerate key command-and-control integration work, including getting the Army-operated Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system to work within IBCS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guam is home to a permanent THAAD battery called Task Force Talon, which serves as the critical component for defending the island against ballistic missile threats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, the Army and MDA \u201cshall integrate AN\/TPY-2 measurement data into IBCS no later than 2030 and achieve full integration by 2033,\u201d the report details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MDA has long used AN\/TPY-2 radars to track ballistic missiles, but Raytheon just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2025\/05\/20\/rtx-delivers-first-radar-to-mda-that-can-track-hypersonic-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2025\/05\/20\/rtx-delivers-first-radar-to-mda-that-can-track-hypersonic-weapons\/\">delivered a new version to MDA with Gallium Nitride, or GaN,<\/a> which gives it the ability to track more complex threats at greater ranges like hypersonic weapons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first new radar with GaN will go to the Army\u2019s eight THAAD battery. 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It serves as the primary radar for THAAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army\u2019s new LTAMDS radar, also developed by Raytheon, has GaN technology as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon quietly directed the Missile Defense Agency to stop development of a new radar to protect Guam, according to a recent GAO 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