spacetoday.net: Lockheed, Northrop win space radar contracts

Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004, 11:51 AM ET (1551 GMT)
The US Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman contracts on Friday to develop concepts for a space-based radar system. Each company won contracts worth $220 million to study how to develop a system of reconnaissance spacecraft that can provide the military with high-resolution all-weather radar imagery. The contracts run through April 2006, after which the Air Force is expected to select a single company to build the system, to be deployed around 2012.