Information on Over-the-Horizon Radar. Part 3
Abstract
NRL Memo Report 1422 of May 1963, was a direct response to a DOD request for information on a MADRE type over-the-horizon radar for prototype installation on foreign soil. A follow-up joint effort by USAF and NRL to arrive at some additional cost information was made on or about 1 November 1963. Further, DOD memo of 7 February 1964 directed mainly to USAF and Navy in substance called for a study phase exercise (so called Phase 1) among qualified commercial concerns on equipment costs and economic trade-offs for a state-of-the-art MADRE-like radar. Navy, as consultant to USAF's Rome Air Development Center, has prepared NRL Memo Report 1537, which is a detailed Work Statement Specification for such an OHD radar. Memo Report 1537 is in detail and should be used as the source for equipment specifications and equipment employment. Although this report addresses itself to a different mission from CONUS protection a station complement suitable for SLEM detection simply involves additional antenna complexity and a redundancy in transmitters, signal processing and data handling to satisfy the SLEM threat. It is unfortunate in the area of costing, that the efforts of the separate Air Force and Navy committees operating under DOD Memo R&E Log No. 64-1502 will not be able to digest the detailed costing of a commercial firm nature which will be one of the direct results of the aforementioned Study Phase. The commercial concern response to Phase 1 has a deadline of 1 September 1964. Subsequently USAF and NRL expect to digest the submitted material and report to DOD their mutual findings with recommendations. In consequence the cost information, hurriedly prepared, presented here is only of a quasi-commercial flavor, but believed to be quite realistic in the totals though discrepancies can be found.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 18, 1964
- Accession Number
- ADA472257
Entities
People
- C. B. Tesauro
- E. N. Zettle
- E. W. Ward
- F. H. Utley
- F. M. Gager
- J. L. Ahearn
- J. R. Davis
- James M. Headrick
- W. C. Headrick
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory