QinetiQ2005-02-10 09:24:00
UK team secures multi-million pound
next-generation maritime radar contract
QinetiQ and its partners AMS and Roke Manor Research Ltd have begun work on ARTIST (Advanced Radar Technology Integrated System Test-bed). This £8.1M UK contract is to build a research demonstrator system and assess techniques to support the next generation of maritime multifunction radar (MFR). The 44 month programme includes preliminary testing in the UK with more extensive trials taking place in a follow-on programme.
The ARTIST programme includes collaboration with the US bringing together over 20 years of MFR expertise. The programme is funded in the UK by MOD UK Director Equipment Capability - Above Water Effects, and was placed on his behalf by the Research Acquisition Organisation. The US Navy is funding the programme in the United States and the work will be undertaken by Lockheed Martin. One of the outputs of the collaboration will be a demonstrator test-bed for each nation - the UK ARTIST and the US ARTIST.
Paul Wrobel, QinetiQ's Director of Naval Programmes, said: "The ARTIST programme builds on the UK team's significant track record in maritime radar research, which includes the MESAR (Multifunction Electronically Scanned Adaptive Radar) programmes and the Sampson radar system. QinetiQ's expertise in radar and the ability to take research through to technology has been recognised with the award of this contract."
The UK ARTIST system will be developed, built and evaluated by the UK team and the outcome will contribute to decisions on performance improvements to existing and planned radar systems, including for the Type 45 destroyer and other future platforms. The UK team are pursuing battle-winning technology for high stability signal generation, advanced signal processing and radar management to support the detection of very small targets in dense clutter.
In the UK, ARTIST will help to address Royal Navy Anti-Air Warfare and Anti-Surface Warfare capability requirements beyond the 2010 time frame, when operations in littoral waters and heavily cluttered environments are increasingly a concern. [MORE]
The advances in technology from the ARTIST programme will be applicable to a global market.
next-generation maritime radar contract
QinetiQ and its partners AMS and Roke Manor Research Ltd have begun work on ARTIST (Advanced Radar Technology Integrated System Test-bed). This £8.1M UK contract is to build a research demonstrator system and assess techniques to support the next generation of maritime multifunction radar (MFR). The 44 month programme includes preliminary testing in the UK with more extensive trials taking place in a follow-on programme.
The ARTIST programme includes collaboration with the US bringing together over 20 years of MFR expertise. The programme is funded in the UK by MOD UK Director Equipment Capability - Above Water Effects, and was placed on his behalf by the Research Acquisition Organisation. The US Navy is funding the programme in the United States and the work will be undertaken by Lockheed Martin. One of the outputs of the collaboration will be a demonstrator test-bed for each nation - the UK ARTIST and the US ARTIST.
Paul Wrobel, QinetiQ's Director of Naval Programmes, said: "The ARTIST programme builds on the UK team's significant track record in maritime radar research, which includes the MESAR (Multifunction Electronically Scanned Adaptive Radar) programmes and the Sampson radar system. QinetiQ's expertise in radar and the ability to take research through to technology has been recognised with the award of this contract."
The UK ARTIST system will be developed, built and evaluated by the UK team and the outcome will contribute to decisions on performance improvements to existing and planned radar systems, including for the Type 45 destroyer and other future platforms. The UK team are pursuing battle-winning technology for high stability signal generation, advanced signal processing and radar management to support the detection of very small targets in dense clutter.
In the UK, ARTIST will help to address Royal Navy Anti-Air Warfare and Anti-Surface Warfare capability requirements beyond the 2010 time frame, when operations in littoral waters and heavily cluttered environments are increasingly a concern. [MORE]
The advances in technology from the ARTIST programme will be applicable to a global market.
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