Radar Systems
Expertise in Action
Featured Work
DARC Demonstration Earth
The APL designed, developed, and tested Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) helped solve the challenge of locating and tracking active satellites in and on the way to geosynchronous orbit, more than 22,000 miles above Earth.
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Testing Air and Missile Defense Radar
APL teamed with industry and the Above Water Sensors Directorate of Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems on two successful tests of the AN/SPY-6(V), a wideband digital beam-forming sensor known as the Air and Missile Defense Radar.
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Prototype Planner Offers New Capability for Radar Search Plans Feb 7, 2023
Submitting a Request for Analysis for AN/TPY-2 radar search plans used to be a long process that produced a limited result, but APL has conceptualized a way to transform a static document into a dynamic computer program, known as a planner.
Johns Hopkins APL-Led Study Culminates in Development of Long Range Discrimination Radar Jun 17, 2022
Years of APL engineering and technical leadership for the Missile Defense Agency Ground Sensors Directorate culminated last December as Lockheed Martin built and installed the multimission Long Range Discrimination Radar at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska.
Johns Hopkins APL Contributes ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Navy SPY-6 Radar System Upgrade May 10, 2021
Raytheon and APL delivered the first Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) AN/SPY-6 (SPY-6) array for installation to the U.S. Navy for DDG-125, the latest destroyer in the Arleigh Burke class.