Raytheon has secured a $327.14m fixed-price incentive (firm target) modification to a previously awarded contract to begin low-rate initial production of AN/SPY-6(V) air and missile defence radars (AMDRs).

Under the terms of the modification, Raytheon will develop the first three AN/SPY-6(V) AMDRs for the US Navy and provide non-recurring engineering efforts in support of production.

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Raytheon AMDR programme director Tad Dickenson said: “Progressing to production is the result of a lot of hard work and dedication from our AMDR team of experts across Raytheon, the Navy, and our world-class suppliers.

“In just over three years of the engineering, manufacturing and development phase, we've gone from a technology demonstrator to a technically mature, highly advanced, functioning radar.

“Production begins today, which brings us one day closer to delivering this needed, and unprecedented, integrated air and missile defence capability to the Navy.”

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Expected to be completed by October 2020, the AMDR low-rate initial production units will be manufactured in Marlborough, Massachusetts, US.

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“Progressing to production is the result of a lot of hard work and dedication from our AMDR team of experts across Raytheon, the Navy, and our world-class suppliers."

The US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) is serving as the contracting activity for the AN/SPY-6(V) production project.

With delivery scheduled for 2019, the AN/SPY-6(V) AMDR has been specifically designed to be fitted on the US Navy’s first DDG 51 Flight III destroyer.

Developed with radar modular assemblies (RMAs), the Raytheon radar can function as a standalone radar and be grouped to develop any size radar aperture from a single RMA to configurations larger than those facilitated by currently fielded radars.