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The article focuses on Aerospace company Lockheed Martin's TPY-4 ground-based radar, scheduled for initial testing with the U.S. Air Force, chosen for its multi-mission capabilities, encompassing air and maritime surveillance, drone detection, and missile/satellite tracking. It mentions the TPY-4's features, including 360-degree coverage up to 555 kilometers, are highlighted, emphasizing its significance in the evolving defense landscape.

The article reviews the IntuVue RDR-7000 weather radar system by Honeywell.

The article focuses on a recapitalization program for modernization of Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System by the US Air Force due to an aging of legacy platforms and to use advanced battle management system. It discusses sensors and communications architecture used by the U.S. military, source selection process by the Air Force for engineering and manufacturing development and its budget for JSTARS aircraft. It discusses a financial burden of Air Force and challenges of the program.

The article offers information on the production of the first of the U.S. Air Force's new long-range air defense radars, TPY-4 for the Three Dimensional Expeditionary Long Range Radar (3DELRR) by aerospace company the Lockheed Martin. It further discusses detect and track current and emerging threats, from small unmanned aerial vehicles to tactical ballistic missiles at great distances; and views of Rick Herodes, director of ground-based air surveillance radars at Lockheed Martin, on issue.

The article discusses that the defense industry is working alongside the Pentagon and allied nations to bring online new radar systems that can be used on land and at sea. It mentions the system was designed for DDG-51 Flight III destroyers and has four array faces, each with 37 radar module assemblies; and also mentions the radar can simultaneously defend against cruise missiles, antisurface and anti-ship threats and provide jamming protections.

The article offers information that radar antenna for the lower tier air-and-missile defense sensor by the Raytheon, along with mentions the views of the Bob Kelly, director for business development and strategy for integrated air-and-missile defense on the radar systems.

A correction is presented to the article “Lockheed Upgrading Radar Systems for Hypersonic Threats"in the January issue.

The article reports on the flight testing being conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and General Atomics on the integration of a sense-and-avoid system into unmanned aircraft MQ-9 Reaper. Topics covered include industry standards set by the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) for sense-and-avoid systems and air-to-air radar. Also mentioned are the automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) and traffic collision avoidance system (T-CAS).

The article evaluates the I-MASTER radar for tracking land and sea targets from Thales.