Multi-mission Phased Array Radar (MPAR)

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Multi-mission Phased Array Radar (MPAR)

• Increase in MPAR resources facilitates
  comprehensive assessment of potential service
  improvements, particularly to meet NOAAs public
  safety mission and improve tornado warnings per
  the Strategic Plan, 5 and 20-year research plans,
  and NWS GPRA goals
• Opportunity to leverage FAA, DOD, and DHS
  resources, and de-synchronized interagency
  collaboration to reduce overall costs
• Benefits of additional resources to MPAR
  assessment and evaluation
• Verification of faster refresh rate, multiple
  beam techniques, longer dwell times,
  identification of new storm morphology to improve
  tornado warnings
• Assessed feasibility/affordability of dual
  polarization at large look angles
• Assessed array configurations and weather / air
  surveillance mission mix
• 50 of increase will procure an active array panel