AN/SPS-49 Technical Refresh
Abstract
AN/SPS-49 Technology Refresh: As the only Air Surveillance Radar on the LSD 41/49 class ships, continued degradation and increasingly low radar availability of the AN/SPS-49 Radar is greatly impacting deployed missions, impacting safety of flight and affecting LSD Air Warfare capability and operations. Funding is to complete development, test and evaluation, validation and integration of a technology refresh of the below deck hardware for the AN/SPS-49A(V)1 Long Range Air Surveillance Radar. This technology refresh will include Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RM&A) improvements and solid state technology insertions which will reduce cascading failures and mitigate obsolescence issues. In addition, this effort replaces key components to include: transmitter, receiver, exciter, antenna elevation servo control, radar system control, display and signal data processor (SDP). A digital receiver/exciter (DREX) with high-performance computing technology will be a key component in the new system. The current SPS-49 radar has no software so new software is being developed to mimic the current radar functions to maintain compatibility with internal and external interfaces. This effort will improve SPS-49 electronic protection, have increased surveillance range and increased slow moving small target detection, as well as reduce total ownership cost with lower unit cost and smaller size/weight/power requirements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 3408_0604501N_5_1319_PB_2021
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