Canada Site Could House U.S. Missile Defense Radar

Raytheon Co. is considering a Canadian site for a radar station that could be used in the U.S. missile defense system, Canadian Press reported yesterday (see GSN, March 9).

If installed in Happy Valley-Goose Bay in Labrador, the X-band radar would be part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command information systems and would “give additional radar coverage to the coast and might have some utility for ballistic missile defense as well,” said Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham.

He added that no deal was imminent and that Raytheon was exploring several locations for the project.

“We’ve never had a formal request for this, there [have] been no substantial discussions about this,” Graham said (Canadian Press/Canoe.ca, April 24).

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