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| Amec to construct facilities for U.S. Space Fence radar system Amec, the international engineering and project management company, announces today the award of a contract by Lockheed Martin to design and build facilities for the U.S. Space Fence program. The new advanced ground-based radar system will enhance the way the U.S. Air Force identifies and tracks more than 200,000 orbiting objects in space and increase the ability to prevent space-based collisions. Under the contract, Amec will deliver facilities and infrastructure for an advanced S-Band phased array radar for the Space Fence program including radar array buildings, mechanical buildings, operations buildings, power generation plants, and site work. Construction of the new Space Fence system on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands is scheduled to begin in early 2015. The value of AMEC's contract has not been announced. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Construction News :: home page |