Raytheon has won a competition to provide new radars for the U.S. Air Force’s entire fleet of Boeing F-15E Strike Eagles, maintaining its position as sole provider of radars for the Eagle family. Along with a radar replacement program for the F-15C fighter, foreign sales and ongoing sensor production for the Boeing Super Hornet, the new deal means that Raytheon’s potential order book for active-array fighter radars now stands at over 900 units.
The F-15E currently uses Raytheon’s APG-70 radar–in its day a revolutionary sensor, but it has remained largely untouched since its development in the 1980s. To update the F-15E, the U.S. Air Force opened an F-15E Radar Modernization Program (RMP) and partnered with Boeing to run a competition for a new sensor. Following bid submissions from Raytheon and Northrop Grumman, the former landed a source selection award (SSA) on November 1. Along with the technical bid, Raytheon submitted a number of procurement rate and spares supply level options to meet variable budgetary and delivery rate requirements.
