A Raytheon Technologies business and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency demonstrated a warfighting concept designed to help the U.S. Navy facilitate distributed maritime operations and transform how the service projects power. Raytheon Missiles & Defense combined its software and hardware systems with the Naval Information Warfare Center-developed virtual test bed during the three-week demonstration […] More

Raytheon has started to deliver the pulse power containers for the U.S. Navy‘s future railgun following the validation of power requirements for the next-generation directed energy weapon. The Navy will integrate the pulse power containers into its railgun test range to prepare for further development and testing under the program, Raytheon said Monday. The company added […] More

A three-week field test of the Counter-Electronic High-Power Microwave Extended-Range Air Base Defense system, or CHIMERA, recently took place at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. RTX business Raytheon said Monday that it had conducted the test in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, with whom the company is working alongside Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division and the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to develop CHIMERA under the Directed Energy Front-line Electromagnetic Neutralization and Defeat program.

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Raytheon, an RTX company, has secured a three-year, $31.3 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division to design, build and test two directed energy weapon prototype systems for the U.S. Navy and Air Force. The company said Tuesday it will deliver high-power microwave antenna systems that will use directed energy to enable the detection of airborne threats as part of the Directed Energy Front-line Electromagnetic Neutralization and Defeat program.

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Raytheon, an RTX business, will produce high-power-density gallium nitride transistors to enhance the electronic capability of radio frequency sensors under a four-year, $15 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. RTX said Thursday it will integrate military-grade GaN transistors into radar systems to increase range and radar resource management capabilities as part of DARPA's Technologies for Heat Removal in Electronics at the Device Scale program.

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The U.S. Army has tapped an RTX business to work on a radar software upgrade to enable multiple 360-degree Lower Tier Air & Missile Defense Sensor radars to network together and increase air and missile threat defense. Under a new Army contract, Raytheon will further develop its Advanced Distributed Radar concept for integration into LTAMDS.

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Raytheon has secured a contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop and demonstrate a novel rotating detonation engine propulsion system capable of powering long-range weapon systems. The RTX business will integrate a rotating detonation engine technology into a full-scale free-jet test system under the Gambit engine development program.

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Raytheon, an RTX business, and Northrop Grumman will continue to build and conduct additional flight tests of Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept systems powered by scramjet engines under a follow-on contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Raytheon-Northrop team will incorporate production enhancements into the existing HAWC design and validate system capabilities through additional […] More

Raytheon Technologies has secured a U.S. Navy contract for the modernization of the service branch’s AN/SPY-6(V) family of radars. The defense contractor said Thursday it will leverage its software-defined aperture approach to enhance the radar’s performance. AN/SPY-6(V)1 is designed to be integrated with the Navy’s latest AEGIS combat weapon system version. It is compatible with […] More

The target detection capability of an advanced radar system software was demonstrated by Raytheon Technologies’ missiles defense business as part of a U.S. Navy initiative that seeks to increase threat defense through distributed sensing networks. Under the Network Cooperative Radar program, Raytheon Missiles & Defense and Office of Naval Research tested two radar emulators with […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ missiles and defense business has received a $33.7 million U.S. Air Force contract to create a hypersonic cruise missile demonstration concept for a U.S.-Australian weapons program. Raytheon said Thursday it will work with Northrop Grumman under the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment, an effort focused on advancing air-breathing hypersonic technologies. In support […] More

Raytheon currently develops multiple technology platforms as part of efforts to help the U.S. military utilize a fifth-generation standard for wireless communications.

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