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ThalesRaytheonSystems receives $45 million to upgrade Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System

28 January 2003

ThalesRaytheonSystems, has been awarded a $45 million dollar firm-fixed price contract to upgrade TPQ-36A Air Surveillance Radars for the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF). The RNoAF's TPQ-36A is the predecessor system to the AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel Air Defense Radar, a highly mobile ground-based air defense unit currently fielded within the US Army and four other nations.

The development and production program for the Norwegian Advanced Surface to Air Missile System, known in Norway as NASAMS II, will result in installation of upgrade kits for the TPQ-36A radars. This upgrade will convert systems into units similar to that of the most recent AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel product improvement. Enhancements included in the kit are a new transmitter power amplifier, receiver/exciter, signal/data processor and antenna motor controller. All kits will be assembled in the U.S., with a portion of the manufacturing work to take place at the Raytheon Consolidated Manufacturing Center (CMC) in Forest, Miss. The upgrade installation for the first two radars will take place in the U.S. The remaining kits will be delivered by ThalesRaytheonSystems to Norway for on-site installation.

In addition to the ThalesRaytheonSystems radar upgrades, the Surface Launched AMRAAM NASAMS II program consists of other RNoAF hardware upgrades (missile launcher, fire direction control, etc.). ThalesRaytheonSystems serves as a subcontractor to HKV, a joint venture between Raytheon and Kongsberg Defense of Norway. All ThalesRaytheonSystems elements of the NASAMS II program will be accomplished over a 42 month period.

ThalesRaytheonSystems is an equally owned transatlantic joint venture (JV) between Raytheon Company and Thales Group. ThalesRaytheonSystems is a worldwide supplier of air defense command and control centers (ADCC) and ground based battlefield radars. Annual income is close to 700 million dollars with 1300 people employed.

Press contacts:
Thales - Matt Pothecary - Tel:+33 (0) 1 53 77 86 26
ThalesRaytheonSystems - Isabelle Blackburn - Tel: +33 (0) 1 69 75 50 98
Raytheon - Janet Kopec - Tel: +1972-952-2547