WASHINGTON — The Space Force has broadened its plans to upgrade its legacy ground-based radars to improve their missile defense and space monitoring capabilities, now envisioning a sweeping program to digitize the mostly analog antennas and computer processors for all eight of the aging systems, according to a Space Systems Command (SSC) spokesperson.
The expanded Ground Based Radar Digitization (GBRD) effort is “transformational,” as it will allow the service to put into place “better ways to defeat modern digital threats (smaller, faster, more numerous objects),” the spokesperson said.
The re-scoped GBRD effort replaces a plan first put forward in a request for information (RFI) from industry last July which would have upgraded only six of the radars and…
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