NORTH KINGSTOWN – Congress has earmarked $1.4 million for Applied Radar Inc., a small research, development, engineering and manufacturing company with expertise in microwave system development, to develop a wideband digital airborne electronic sensing array for the U.S. Air Force.

Pushed in Congress by U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, the budget set-aside will be used to develop an advanced prototype of a digital radar receiver created under a U.S. Department of Defense contract with the Air Force Research Lab at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts.

Applied Radar has secured several other government contracts in the last several years, for electronic textile antennas, radar technologies and wideband digital equipment