TACMOR Development
Abstract
TACMOR capability is being developed for employment in the Republic of Palau to provide enhanced Air Domain Awareness in the USINDOPACOM area of responsibility. TACMOR will be operated by the United States and located in the Republic of Palau, with the agreement of the government of Palau. Development, test and evaluation, and acquisition of the system and associated components will provide warfighters with the capability to close gaps in surveillance coverage in key regions of the Pacific area of interest to the United States and our Allies. TACMOR radar system development, integration and test activities are delayed under the current funding profile. TACMOR efforts funded in this Program Element will include but are not limited to: A Transmit site consisting of fourteen elements and high-power amplifiers transmitting High Frequency [HF] Skywave Over-The-Horizon Radar [OTHR] waveforms. The transmit site will also consists of a HF vertical sounder antenna and a HF backscatter sounder providing ionosphere environmental information for optimizing frequency selection. Also includes a Receive site consisting of 128 dual-monopole antenna elements receiving the over-the-horizon reflected energy from the transmit site. The receive site also contains the secure facilities for signal processing of the received data and real-time target extraction information. This effort will also fund the communications infrastructure necessary to enable the data flow from the Transmit and Receive sites to an off-site operations control center. The operations control center plans and executes missions in support of the Combatant Command [CCMD] and provides real-time, target tracking information to all-source information fusion and dissemination systems. TACMOR data will also be accessible to and exploited by the National Air and Space Intelligence Center [NASIC] for detailed, post-event analysis. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY2024 $0 was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY2025 $0 is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 674865_0102417F_7_3600_PB_2025
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