Raytheon has demonstrated an anti-ship missile defense system built for the U.S. Navy during a live-fire test at China Lake in California. The SeaRAM defense system intercepted an inbound threat using a Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 during the exercise, Raytheon said Monday. Rick Nelson, vice president of Raytheon’s naval and area mission defense product line, […] More

The U.S. Navy has completed a series of maritime tests on an upgraded Raytheon-built missile defense system that is designed to help protect warfighters from anti-ship missiles. Raytheon said Friday the Navy can now integrate the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 missile into ships after the service achieved initial operational capability with the technology. RAM […] More

Raytheon and L-3 Communications have completed a new test on the TALON Rocket Remote Weapon System to demonstrate the target positioning and engagement functions of this laser-guided defense system for small ships. Rick Nelson, vice president of Raytheon’s naval and area mission defense products, said Wednesday TALON RRWS combines the uses of the TALON laser-guided rocket and L-3’s Advanced Remote Weapon […] More

Raytheon has handed the initial batch of its Rolling Airframe Missile system to the U.S. Navy under the company’s low rate production contract with the service branch. The company worked to upgrade Block 2 variant’s kinematics, radio frequency receiver and control system, Raytheon said Wednesday. “Along with demonstrating a long-standing international partnership, the RAM program has […] More

The MACH37 cybersecurity accelerator has begun a 90-day session to mentor cybersecurity startup businesses on developing cyber technologies with $50,000 in investment. MACH37 selected Anatrope, Atomicorp, JeKuDo, Nelson-Harris and Shevirah for the Spring 2015 session based on the companies’ technology and approach to solving security issues, MACH37 said Wednesday. Rick Gordon, managing partner at MACH37, […] More

Immixgroup and MicroStrategy have partnered to distribute enterprise information technology offerings to the government market in a push to help customer agencies transform IT operations. MicroStrategy said Monday it seeks to introduce an enterprise analytics platform to public sector IT modernization projects via contract vehicles on which immixGroup holds a position.

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Raytheon‘s SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system aboard USS Carney completed an initial live fire test that the U.S. Navy facilitated in Rota, Spain. The company said Wednesday the system identified, tracked and intercepted a BQM-74E target with a RAM Block II missile during the test. Rick Nelson, Raytheon vice president for the naval area and mission defense product line, […] More

Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have evaluated the company’s anti-ship missile defense system in a series of test shots that simulated advanced threat scenarios. During the tests, the SeaRAM system worked to detect two inbound supersonic missiles and launch the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 guided missiles to intercept the targets, Raytheon said Tuesday. The Navy conducted the […] More

The U.S. Navy has launched a Raytheon-built SeaRAM tactical missile from the USS Coronado Littoral Combat Ship as part of a live-fire exercise at a California sea range in August. Raytheon said Thursday the Navy used the vessel’s SeaRAM anti-ship defense system to fire a Rolling Airframe Missile and tested the weapon system’s target detection, tracking, engagement and interception functions. Rick Nelson, vice […] More

Artificial intelligence is making waves across multiple industries. As AI technology develops, its power is being unleashed, and it’s illuminating a new world of possibilities, capabilities and innovation for the United States military in particular.  But like any nascent technology, AI can also be unpredictable and its ripple effects may be yet unknown. In order […] More

MicroStrategy has secured an authorized designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based analytics platform for government customers. The business intelligence company said Tuesday that MicroStrategy Cloud for Government service achieved the certification with support from the Department of Health and Human Services and that the offering is now listed on […] More

Raytheon‘s tactical control system was designed to operate drones in all branches of the U.S. military and the TCS is now receiving a software upgrade, according to a Military Aerospace article. John Keller writes that Raytheon Technical Services is poised to switch the software on the control system from Solaris to Linux software as well as upgrade the […] More