Qatar: Patriot sale into boom economy

The US Department of Defence (Pentagon) in late January said Lockheed Martin Corporation had been awarded a $92.7m modification to its foreign military sales (FMS) Patriot missile support contract. Lockheed will conduct a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and Missile Segment Enhancement Multi-Band Radio Frequency Data Link obsolescence redesign, the Pentagon said. Completion of the contract is scheduled by January 2020. The award follows a separate $1.1bn US Army contract, awarded in December, that included the sale of PAC-3 technology to Qatar, along with Saudi Arabia and Korea.