Range Radar Replacement Program (RRRP)
Abstract
In order to effect strategic overmatch on current and future battlefields, it is essential that the United States (U.S.) Army provide advanced radar system instrumentation for developmental testing. Since existing range radar instrumentation is aged beyond useful life and cannot adequately support emerging test requirements in areas such as hypersonics, the Range Radar Replacement Program (RRRP) develops modern instrumentation radars to replace obsolete tracking and surveillance radars at U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command's Developmental Test Command (DTC) activities, which include: Aberdeen Test Center (ATC), MD; Redstone Test Center (RTC), AL; White Sands Test Center (WSTC), NM; and Yuma Test Center (YTC), AZ. The acquisition of modern instrumentation radar systems will provide the Army with critical testing data essential for the development of next generation technology and advanced system capabilities. The RRRP provides the test centers with improved radar resolution, sensitivity, accuracy, clutter suppression, and reliability. The planned solution to meet program requirements consists of four primary items: Long Range Single Object Tracking Radars (SOTR), Long Range Multiple Object Tracking Radars (MOTR), Medium Range Radars (MRR), and Short Range Radars (SRR). The resulting systems will not only reduce operation and sustainment costs for the ranges, but improve data collection, thus enhancing development of Army systems being tested at these ranges. The current fleet of instrumentation radars located at ATC, RTC, WSTC, and YTC has become antiquated to the extent that they are not able to support the test needs of the test centers. This Project will procure commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and/or modified commercial off-the-shelf (MOTS) radars for both the MRR and SRR solutions, and a combination of recapitalization and COTS/MOTS replacement for the FPS-16 Long Range Radars (LRR). Also, the program will conduct Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) for upgrading three MPS-39 Long Range MOTRs. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 request of $94.760 million continues procurement of MRRs and LRRs and provides acceptance testing of Medium, Long, and MPS-39 MOTR radars. The significant increase in requested program funding from FY 2019 to FY 2020 procures seven additional radars, accelerating the program by one year. This strategic acceleration aligns RRRP with developmental testing requirements emerging from Army Modernization efforts in support of the National Defense Strategy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- EY9_0604759A_6_2040_PB_2020
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