Sentinel A4 radar program completes key milestones
NewsMay 01, 2020
BETHESDA, Md. Four months after the initial contract award, the U.S. Army’s Sentinel A4 radar program has completed several key milestones. In January, the Army approved the program’s Systems Requirement Review (SRR), Systems Functional Review (SFR), and the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for one of the subsystems.
According to the company, Lockheed Martin’s open scalable radar architecture is the cornerstone of the radar system’s design and aims to allow for future upgrades that not only extend the life of the radar, but address threats to our warfighters that will evolve over the next 40 years.
The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $281 million contract to develop the Sentinel A4 system in September 2019. The new air and missile defense radar is intended to provide improved capability against cruise missiles, unmanned aerial systems, rotary wing and fixed wing, and rocket, artillery, and mortar threats.
The radar is also designed to provide enhanced surveillance, detection, and classification capabilities against current and emerging aerial threats in order to protect U.S. Army maneuver formations and high-value static assets to include: command and control nodes, tactical assembly areas, and geo-political centers.
