Space Force to overhaul key early warning, surveillance radars around the world

The Space Force plans to overhaul eight legacy missile warning and space surveillance radars located around the world, taking them from analog to digital operations, according to a May 7 notice. 

Under the Ground Based Radar Digitization project, or GBRD, the service will install new hardware and software on the radars, upgrading everything from front-end antennas to back-end data processors. The systems, some of which have been in operation since the 1970s, include: 

• Five Upgraded Early Warning Radars, located at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland; Royal Air Force Flyingdales in the United Kingdom; Clear Space Force Station, Alaska; Beale Air Force Base, Calif.; and Cape Cod Space Force Station, Mass.
• The Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization, or PARCs radar, at Cavalier Space Force Station, N.D.
• The Cobra Dane radar at Eareckson Air Station, Alaska
• The C-6 radar at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

Read more at Air and Space Forces Magazine