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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Radar spending continues to be a bright spot in Pentagon budget forecasts

F-15ERadar spending in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) budget should grow by 1.6 percent each year through 2016, predict analysts at market researcher Frost & Sullivan in Mountain View, Calif.

The 2011 DOD radar budget is about $2.47 billion -- a $211.8 million increase over 2010 enacted levels -- and represents about 5.7 percent of total U.S. military spending on command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR), Frost & Sullivan analysts say.

Driving U.S. military radar spending is the need for continued improvements in radar size, weight, and power (SWaP), bandwidth efficiency, detection, cross cueing to other types of sensors, and data collaboration, Frost & Sullivan analysts say in the report entitled U.S. DOD Radar Markets.

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