December 18, 2018 / 10:31 PM / a year ago
The US Missile Defense Agency has awarded defense company Lockheed Martin a $ 585 m grant to develop a ballistic missile defence system in Hawaii . The Homeland Defense Radar - Hawaii will be based in Oahu and provide Hawaii 's long - range surveillance capabilities to offer autonomous acquisition and persistent precision tracking and discrimination . The system is set to operate between December 2018 and December 2020 .