FAA Commissions First of New Indra Radars

The FAA has commissioned the first new secondary radar supplied by Indra Group USA, the air traffic management technology provider announced on Tuesday. Installed in Putnam, Oklahoma, the equipment is among 185 primary and secondary radars Indra will provide under an initial $342 million Radar System Replacement program contract.

In January, the FAA announced that it had awarded contracts to both Indra and RTX for the installation of up to 612 radars by June 2028. The initial phase covers 410 ground-based air traffic control radars split among both contractors, with the remainder anticipated to be awarded in upcoming years. The radar award followed an earlier FAA contract that Indra received to provide 46,000 new radios and associated ground support.

Indra Group USA is producing the radars at its 125,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility, which it recently opened in Olathe, Kansas. That facility was designed to accommodate the necessary ramp-up in production capacity to meet a demanding delivery timeline for the new radars. In addition, the Olathe site will handle high-volume communications and defense technology production, including the Nexcom digital radios that will be capable of analog and voice-over-Internet-protocol operations.

“The commissioning of Indra Group USA’s first radar in Putnam is an achievement that demonstrates our role as a trusted technology partner to the FAA,” said Víctor Martínez, executive v-p of air traffic management at Indra Group.