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| Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) Over-the-Horizon Radar |
Nigel Pittaway
MELBOURNE, Australia — Lockheed Martin, in partnership with Australia’s Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group, is developing enhancements for the next generation of Over-the-Horizon Radar (OTHR) to detect and track small, fast-moving targets at extremely long ranges and at night.
The US defense giant has invested in the Australian Research and Development (R&D) Programme with a view to selling the capability in the international market place, including the United States. The defense-industry team announced the successful completion of Phase 1 of validation work on what is known as Project Coorong on June 8.
“From a Lockheed Martin perspective, a lot of the problems that DST Group had identified in that area is really about a problem space that one of our international customers would potentially want resolved in the next-generation Over-the-Horizon Radar,” said Jack Mahoney, Lockheed Martin Australia’s general manager.
Mahoney pointed to Brazil’s Sistema de Gerenciamento do Amazonia Azul maritime awareness program of 2014 as an example of the applications the company sees for Project Coorong in the export market.
“This technology could have been applicable to that space as well, but at the same time the US was also clearly interested in trying to understand how OTHR fits into their layer of systems-of-systems, from a detection perspective,” Mahoney said.
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