Raytheon Technologies‘ missiles and defense business has secured a $60.4 million contract modification that covers the purchase of Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2B guided missile round spares by the U.S. Navy and Germany for fiscal 2023. Sixty-two percent of contract efforts by Raytheon Missiles and Defense will be conducted in Ottobrunn, Germany, while the remaining […] More

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business unit was tapped to field test uncrewed aircraft systems traffic management capabilities for the Federal Aviation Administration. Raytheon Intelligence & Space said Monday it will perform data correlation using remote identification, update the cybersecurity capabilities of UTM technology and evaluate future concepts that support real-world small UAS operations. Denis […] More

Jackie Riegle, a former senior manager at Lockheed Martin, has joined Raytheon Technology‘s intelligence and space business as director of strategic market intelligence. In a LinkedIn post, the executive said her transition takes effect Monday and follows a 15-year stint at Lockheed serving a number of roles with increasing responsibilities. Riegle began her Lockheed career […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business will support the operations and maintenance of the U.S. Air Force’s Cobra King mobile radar system under a $12.1 million firm-fixed-price contract.  Raytheon Intelligence and Space will provide non-personal and non-commercial services in support of the maritime radar system over a one-year period, the Defense Department said Tuesday.  Work […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space division has showcased its zero trust offering for the U.S. Army in a technology demonstration event held at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. John DeSimone, president of cybersecurity, intelligence and services at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, said in a statement published Thursday the Operational Zero Trust platform is a fully […] More

A Raytheon Technologies business has combined its zero trust offering with Red Hat’s OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform to help customers facilitate security deployments across information and operational technology environments. REDPro ZTX from Raytheon Intelligence and Space is a zero trust integration platform that supports vendor-agnostic applications and is designed to speed up enterprise-scale zero trust […] More

Carahsoft has secured Raytheon Technologies‘ Premier Award for Overall Excellence in the cost competitiveness category in recognition of its “exceptional” performance in providing affordable technology offerings. Mike McCalip, vice president of government programs and strategy at Carahsoft, said in a statement published Tuesday the company and its reseller partners are committed to providing cost-effective technologies […] More

H55, a Swiss developer of electric propulsion and battery systems, has received a minority investment from Raytheon Technologies’ venture capital business unit.  The financing builds on the companies’ existing collaboration aimed at advancing the development of sustainable aviation technologies, Raytheon said Tuesday. RTX Ventures is currently in partnership with H55 for the development and demonstration […] More

Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business and the U.S. Army demonstrated the capabilities of LIDS, a counter-unmanned aircraft system platform, during the service’s summer test period. LIDS stands for Low, slow, small UAS Integrated Defeat System and is an Army-developed platform composed of Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensor or KuRFS and Coyote family of effectors from […] More

A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary has received a five-year, $11.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a globally linked Ising machine platform with superconducting electronics components. Raytheon BBN will build and integrate analog and digital control hardware, create an application programming interface and map “algorithms for specific non-deterministic polynomial time hard problems to […] More

Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business will now transition the Glide Phase Interceptor to the preliminary design phase following the completion of the Systems Requirements Review – Prototype. GPI is designed to provide the U.S. and its allies with a regional defense layer against missile threats by intercepting hypersonic weapons during the glide phase, Raytheon […] More

The U.S. Navy and Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business deployed two StormBreaker guided test vehicles from an F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft and found that the weapon system carried out the required flight behaviors during the test. The deployed weapon systems reached a speed of .9 Mach and completed a seven-shot rate capture series […] More