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Friday, August 12, 2011

Navy to help Telephonics upgrade RDR-1700B maritime search radar system to classify surface vessels

RDR-1700B maritime search radarU.S. Navy officials are working with the Telephonics Corp. Radar Systems Division in Farmingdale, N.Y., to incorporate ship-classification software in the Telephonics RDR-1700B maritime surveillance and search-and-rescue radar system for helicopters, fixed-sing aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

The Telephonics RDR-1700B maritime surveillance and imaging radar is designed to search, detect, and track several different targets during over-water surveillance.

Officials from Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., plan to award a contract to Telephonics to develop a maritime classification aids (MCA) processing environment for the RDR-1700B using Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) software and hardware layers. Terms of the contract have yet to be negotiated.

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