Dual Bands, Single Processor
Raytheon and Navy engineers at the Surface Combat Systems Center, Wallops Island, Virginia, will hold a preliminary design review this month on modifications to the Dual-Band Radar (DBR) that are required to integrate the system on board the carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). Delivery to the Ford , now in advanced construction at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipbuilding, is scheduled for 2013.