December 18, 2018 / 10:31 PM / a year ago
The US Missile Defense Agency has awarded aerospace company Lockheed Martin a $585m contract to develop a ballistic missile defence system in Hawaii. The Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii will be based in Oahu and use Lockheed's long-range discrimination radar to offer autonomous acquisition and persistent precision tracking and discrimination. The system is set to operate between December 2018 and December 2023.