The U.S. Air Force’s space and missile systems center awarded Raytheon Co. $27.4 million to develop a launch and checkout system for the Air Force’s GPS III satellites, the company announced Thursday. Raytheon reported it will provide checkout and early launch for GPS III satellites, which are expected to launch in 2014. The company was chosen in February 2010 as [...]
The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon an $80.8 million contract modification for a low frequency sonar, Raytheon announced Wednesday. Raytheon said the Australian navy will receive the AN/AQS-22 airborne low frequency sonar through a foreign military sales agreement. This award modifies two previous contracts: a Naval Air Systems Command contract for $81.7 million a Defense Logistics Agency [...]
ITT Exelis has built a team of contractors in pursuit of the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Data Communications Integrated Services contract, ITT Exelis announced Monday. The team now includes: General Dynamics AT&T Northrop Grumman Computer Sciences Corp. Rockwell Collins Raytheon “The outstanding pursuit team we have assembled has ensured all data communications system aspects – ground infrastructure, avionics, [...]
Raytheon will support the Air Force in developing technologies that can provide navigation information when GPS information is not available, the Pentagon announced Friday. The Pentagon said Raytheon will study how to integrate the technology with other advanced systems that can operate in a GPS degraded environment. Work will be performed in El Segundo, Calif. and [...]
Raytheon subsidiary Trusted Computer Solutions and Thales Australia are partnering to deliver a next-generation desktop to Australia’s military, Raytheon announced Thursday. Raytheon said the desktop is intended to generate savings by supplying simpler and less expensive desktop environments. Raytheon also said users will be able to access the military’s restricted and secret networks simultaneously and [...]
The U.S. government has been pursuing a large amount of foreign military sales deals recently. In the last few weeks alone, the government announced deals involving large contracting firms such as Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Under the Arms Export Control Act, the U.S. sells defense services abroad when the president believes the sale will [...]
Raytheon‘s technical services business will upgrade the Cobra Dane’s radar facility under a $14,046,412 contract from the Air Force, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. According to Raytheon, the radar’s data and voice communications systems integrate with the North American Aerospace Defense Command. The Pentagon said the upgrade will ensure the radar collects 100 percent of the data [...]
