{"id":85463,"date":"2011-01-31T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T12:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lockheed-martin-raytheon-win-air-force-space-fence-design-contracts\/"},"modified":"2011-01-31T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T12:28:11","slug":"lockheed-martin-raytheon-win-air-force-space-fence-design-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lockheed-martin-raytheon-win-air-force-space-fence-design-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Win Air Force Space Fence Design Contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-31-11] The<strong> U.S. Air Force<\/strong> awarded <strong>Raytheon<\/strong> and <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> contracts to design the Pentagon\u2019s Space Fence, which will replace its 50-year-old VHF Space Surveillance System to detect space objects and debris in low-Earth orbit, the Air Force announced Jan. 28.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Both companies were awarded an initial $20 million under the 18-month contract, with a potential $107 million in additional orders, the Air Force said. Raytheon and Lockheed Martin have been working with <strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong> on the Space Fence concept since June 2009.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lockheed Martin its prototype design would be based on its Aegis naval weapons S-band radar. Raytheon said it would focus on expanding the range of objects the system could track, including objects that threaten space shuttles and the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-31-11] The U.S. Air Force awarded Raytheon and Lockheed Martin contracts to design the Pentagon\u2019s Space Fence, which will replace its 50-year-old VHF Space Surveillance System to detect space objects and debris in low-Earth orbit, the Air Force announced Jan. 28. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Both companies were awarded an initial $20 million under the 18-month contract, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}