About $2.74B to produce the AN/TPY-2 transportable radar for Saudi Arabia — what moves through foreign military sales is not only what shoots (Raytheon, Missile Defense Agency)
A Missile Defense Agency contract to produce the AN/TPY-2 transportable radar for Saudi Arabia through foreign military sales (FMS). The period runs twelve years, from June 2020 to August 2032. Of the 207 Department of Defense contracts this site holds as of 2026-08-28, this is the only one whose description names FMS explicitly.
Contract key facts
- RecipientRTX (Raytheon)
- Contract value$2,738,715,983 (≈$2.74B)
- BranchDefense-wide
- Awarding agencyDepartment of Defense
- Awarding sub-agencyMissile Defense Agency
- Award typeDEFINITIVE CONTRACT
- Period of performance2020-06-26 〜 2032-08-31
- Contract ID (PIID)HQ086220C0002
Contract scope (original)
KSA FMS ARMY NAVY TRANSPORTABLE RADAR SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL MODEL 2 (AN/TPY-2) PRODUCTION
Key points
- A contract to produce the AN/TPY-2 transportable radar for Saudi Arabia through foreign military sales. The awarding office is the Missile Defense Agency and the recipient is Raytheon.
- The AN/TPY-2 is a transportable radar — equipment on the side that finds and tracks, not the side that intercepts.
- Foreign military sales is the arrangement by which the US government contracts with domestic companies on behalf of another country and transfers the equipment.
- Of the 207 records this site holds as of 2026-08-28, only this one names FMS explicitly in the description, though records for other countries exist; the descriptions are not written to a common form.
- The period runs from 2020-06-26 to 2032-08-31, twelve years, with a cumulative amount of about $2.74 billion.
- An interceptor is measured by whether it brings the target down, a radar by how early it catches — both make one arrangement.
1Something has to be seen before it can be intercepted
Missile defense draws attention to interceptors. Among the 207 records this site holds as of 2026-08-28 are THAAD interceptors, PAC-3, and the Next Generation Interceptor. But before anything is fired, what is incoming has to be found and tracked, or nothing begins. The AN/TPY-2 is a transportable radar that does that work.
Whether an intercept succeeds turns not only on the performance of the round but on how early the target is caught. Items that look like separate lines in an equipment list function as one continuous system.
2The United States contracting on behalf of another country
Foreign military sales is the arrangement by which the US government contracts with domestic companies on behalf of another country, procures equipment and transfers it. The buyer here is Saudi Arabia, but the parties to the contract are a US agency and a US company. Sorting the descriptions of the 207 records this site holds as of 2026-08-28, exactly one names FMS explicitly.
Records for other countries do exist — Saudi F-15 modernization, firing units for Qatar — but because the descriptions are not written to a common form, counting by wording yields one. The limits of counting data by its words show up here.
3Twelve years
The period runs from June 2020 to August 2032, twelve years. Across the 207 records this site holds as of 2026-08-28, ten years is the most common duration at 24 records, and this one sits near that band. Delivery of equipment does not end in a single act; production, delivery and support continue. Even for a procurement destined for another country, that means the US industrial base stays engaged across the whole period. How many units are produced, and when they are handed over, are not part of this record.
4What shoots, and what finds
Lined up, missile-defence records draw the eye to interceptors. Yet nothing begins until what is incoming is found and held. What this contract covers is the second of those.
Whether an intercept succeeds turns not only on the interceptor but on how early the track begins. Items that look like separate lines in an equipment list work as one continuous arrangement. It also means that what passes to another country under Foreign Military Sales is not only what shoots.
Why it matters
Classifying public data by its words turns variation in phrasing directly into variation in counts. That only one record names FMS does not mean only one procurement was destined abroad. Anyone publishing a tally has to state what was counted or invite misreading. On the equipment side, that what shoots and what sees are contracted separately is easy to overlook.
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Sources (primary)
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- USAspending (award details)
- Contract ID (PIID)：HQ086220C0002