Anna Forrester
The U.S. Air Force‘s Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization program has received a Milestone A decision to move forward to the technology maturation risk reduction phase, the service branch said Monday.
According to the Air Force, the Defense Department‘s undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics gave the decision after seven months of materiel solution analysis work.
The Air Force will also exercise options on the pre-engineering, manufacturing and development contracts awarded in August to industry teams led by Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin.
The $45 million in contract options will cover JSTARS functional and preliminary design reviews and subsystem prototype demonstrations.
Col. David Learned, JSTARS Recap senior materiel leader, noted that a draft request for proposals on the future EMD contracts will follow in the spring.
JSTARS Recap seeks to update the weapon system’s airframe and communication, radar and command-and-control battle management systems.
