Miss. work on Silent Knight radar

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems of McKinney, Texas, was awarded a potentially-estimated $49.5M contract for continued low-rate initial production of the Silent Knight Radar system in support of U.S. Special Operations Command. The work will be performed in McKinney, Texas; and Forest, Miss., and is expected to be completed by October 2018. Silent Knight is a terrain-following/terrain-avoidance (TF/TA) radar allowing for special operations aircraft to fly low-altitude missions with low probability of detection. It is designed to be used for fixed-wing and rotary aircraft; and to serve on MH-47G Chinook and MH-60M Blackhawk helicopters, MC-130 transports, and CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. (Source: DOD 05/02/16)