Radar: 'Outpacing the threat' with NORAD
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The customers in question? The world’s militaries. Brian Lihani is the Chief of the Radar Warning Branch at NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) HQ, a binational and combined organisation co-led by the United States and Canada. The NORAD Agreement establishes three primary missions for NORAD: they are Aerospace Warning, Aerospace Control, and Maritime Warning for North America.
In this article, Lihani explains how a “system-of-systems” approach to radar development is helping NORAD to patrol the skies and "outpace the threat".