Overview

• Testing at the Pacific Missile Range Facility’s Advanced Radar Detection Laboratory tracked air and surface targets under varied conditions, according to Raytheon.
• Company officials said the results validated years of modeling and simulation and will inform software and system enhancements before additional trials.
• The SPY-6(V)4 is slated to replace legacy SPY-1 systems on Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA destroyers under the Navy’s DDG MOD 2.0 effort, using a 24–RMA modular array.
• Naval News reports USS Pinckney (DDG-91) is the first ship scheduled for the retrofit, entering modernization in 2026 and returning to service in 2028.
• Breaking Defense notes a 2022 Navy contract valued at about $3.2 billion covers SPY-6 variants for 31 ships, with more than 60 ships expected to carry SPY-6 over the next decade.