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Article: Decision time looms for UK stand-off radar programme. (Airborne Stand-Off Radar program)

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May 1, 1997
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London: Two closely matched teams, led by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon E-Systems, are competing for a $1.2 billion programme ... with enormous follow-on potential on world markets.

On 20 March, the then-Minister of State for Defence Procurement, James Arbuthnot, announced that the UK MoD's $1.2 billion Airborne Stand-Off Radar (ASTOR) programme was to proceed to the next phase. Two competing consortia - one led by Lockheed Martin, the other by Raytheon E-Systems - will submit best and final offers (BAFOs) against their initial proposals for development, production and in-service support. "We aim to place the contract with the winning consortium in 1998," Arbuthnot ...

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