Raytheon has delivered the first AN/SPY-6(V) air and missile defense radar early to the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii, the company announced Thursday.

The array is now being installed in preparation for first radar light-off this month, Raytheon said in a statement, and is ready for live target tracking.

SPY-6(V) is the Navy's next-generation integrated air and ballistic missile defense radar.

The system's engineering and manufacturing development phase is now 80 percent complete, Raytheon said.

The delivery represents the latest milestone achieved on time or ahead of schedule, the company said.

Design, fabrication and initial testing of the array was completed in less than 30 months, and the system remains on track for delivery to the first DDG-51 Flight III destroyer in 2019.

SPY-6(V) is the first scalable radar using radar building blocks, each of which is a standalone radar that can be grouped to build any size radar aperature.

All the cooling, power, command logic and software are also scalable.

The radar also offers better range, sensitivity and discrimination accuracy.