A next generation radar system planned for the Navy's Future Surface Combatant, AMDR is designed as a scalable, multi-mission radar system. AMDR comprises an X-band and an S-band radar along with a radar suite controller and is intended to provide unprecedented situational awareness to easily detect, track and engage ballistic missiles in high clutter environments. 

Northrop Grumman's Air & Missile Defense Radar evolved from the combined technologies of our large-scale AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) and the U.S. Marine Corps’ AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR (Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar) program to become the industry's lowest-risk, lowest-cost AMDR solution.

Tasked with providing the U.S. Navy with a more capable replacement to current S-Band treaty verification AESA, our highly-trained and dedicated team delivered the largest Naval long-pulse, S-band AESA ever developed, with 3 orders of magnitude more sensitivity than today's SPY-1 radars.  Equally impressive is that total concept-to-delivery time was just six years, making Northrop Grumman the only company to successfully design, develop, and deliver a Naval S-band AESA for the U.S. Navy.

Northrop Grumman is leveraging its extensive history of military S-band radar development along with modular, open architecture approach to provide a solution for AMDR that will scale to multiple ship classes and help protect the U.S. Navy fleet for the next forty years.

Northrop Grumman has proven active electronically scanned array technology developed for airborne and surface based platforms and is a leading integrator of shipboard electronics. The corporation has delivered more than 500 S-Band radar systems and is currently the supplier on a large S-Band system for the Navy.