Overview
- Phased installations begin this quarter with priority for high-traffic regions, targeting completion by June 2028.
- Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, reports a $438 million award to deliver cooperative Condor Mk3 and non‑cooperative ASR‑XM surveillance radars.
- The program replaces 14 legacy radar configurations to streamline maintenance and improve reliability across the National Airspace System.
- Peraton serves as prime integrator for the broader overhaul funded initially by $12.5 billion, with officials saying roughly $20 billion more will be needed.
- Recent outages, including two radar failures affecting Newark controllers last spring, and aging hardware that can require obsolete parts underscore the push to upgrade.