Expeditionary Radars

MISSION

Program Manager Expeditionary Radars (PM ExR) delivers the G/ATOR, a highly mobile multi-mission radar system designed to fully support expeditionary requirements for Marines worldwide. The Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) commander will employ G/ATOR within the Air Combat Element (ACE) and the Ground Combat Element (GCE). Within the ACE, G/ATOR will provide enhanced situational awareness and additional capabilities to conduct short- to medium-range radar surveillance and air defense, and air traffic control missions. Within the GCE, G/ATOR will provide ground weapons locating capability for conduct of counter-battery/counter-fire missions.

PROGRAMS

G/ATOR

G/ATOR is a three-dimensional, expeditionary, short/medium-range multirole radar capable of detecting low-observable, low-radar-cross-section targets such as rockets, artillery, mortars, cruise missiles, and manned and unmanned aerial systems. The G/ATOR is being developed and fielded in three blocks and will be employed by the MAGTF across the range of military operations. The blocks will cover aviation and ground missions and replace three in-service legacy radars as well as fill a capability gap created by two already retired systems. G/ATOR’s expeditionary, multirole capabilities represent the next generation in ground radar technology and will provide greater range, detection, and target classification against new and evolving threats.

media & releases

Marines with 12th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division, set up a Ground and Air Task Oriented Radar system at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, Aug. 10, 2020. The G/ATOR allows Marines to see further distances and is used to locate enemy weapon systems. Having this capability further enhances the III Marine Expeditionary mission and increases lethality. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Josue Marquez)

Set up the G/ATOR

Setting up G/ATOR

G/ATOR in the Pacific

Corps’ moving forward with full-rate production of G/ATOR system

G/ATOR Training

GROUND/AIR TASK ORIENTED RADAR News

Inside Acquisition: How the G/ATOR modernizes the Corps for the future fight

Force Design 2030 details Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. David Berger’s vision for maintaining the relevance of the Corps in the new age of great power competition. Developed to enable the Marine Corps to adapt and outmaneuver its adversaries, Force Design 2030 outlines the commandant’s goals and blueprint for ensuring America maintains its competitive edge. Critical to this effort is one of the Marine Corps’ latest and most advanced systems yet—the Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar, managed by Program Executive Officer Land Systems’ G/ATOR program office.

Annual awards recognize superior performance among Corps’ acquisition workforce

The COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped the Marine Corps from supporting the warfighter. It also did not stop Marine Corps Systems Command from recognizing superior achievements by its acquisition professionals.

PEO Land Systems engineer receives Navy’s top Emergent Engineer award

In June, the Department of Navy recognized a Program Executive Officer Land Systems engineer with the Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers of the Year award for 2020. Ali Olinger, a systems engineer with the Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar program at PEO Land Systems, was one of two emergent engineers selected to receive this year’s Etter Award, and was the only Marine Corps honoree.

Corps’ moving forward with full-rate production of G/ATOR system

The Marine Corps has reached another acquisition milestone decision by gaining approval for full-rate production of the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar system from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition on May 23, 2019. The G/ATOR system combines five legacy radar systems into a single, modernized solution with multiple operational capabilities, providing Marines with comprehensive situational awareness of everything in the sky.

Artillery Marines’ new radar brings the distance on the battlefield

The Corps’ primary indirect fire weapons detection system replacement is here, and is now getting into the hands of Marines. Program Executive Officer Land Systems started fielding the Ground/Air Oriented Task Radar—or G/ATOR—Block 2 systems to artillery Marines with the 11th Marine Regiment at Camp Pendleton, California.

The road to G/ATOR: Corps delivers next-gen radar to Marines

For the Marine Corps’ Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar program office, reaching initial operating capability is a big deal—a momentous occasion, in fact. The one-of-a-kind radar system is more than 10 years in the making, but will help the Corps outpace emerging threats for decades to come.

Award-winning G/ATOR team will provide ‘ground-breaking’ capability to Marines

Members of the Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar team received the coveted Department of Defense David Packard Award in Acquisition Excellence during a Feb. 19 ceremony at the Pentagon. The G/ATOR team is part of Program Executive Officer Land Systems, the Marine Corps acquisition organization for major land programs. G/ATOR is a next-generation radar that provides air surveillance/air defense, counter-fire target acquisition, and air traffic control capabilities.