Raytheon has secured a potential five-year, $86.8M contract from the U.S. Air Force to integrate a follow-on communications platform for use by the U.S. president and other national senior leaders. The company will be the integrator of the Presidential and National Voice Conferencing system under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Friday.

Raytheon and Red Hat have partnered to build a DevSecOps application designed to facilitate software development at an unclassified level and accelerate deployment of tools in a classified environment.

Teresa Shea, vice president of cyber offensive and defensive experts at Raytheon's intelligence, information and services business, told CyberScoop in an interview posted Monday that a zero-trust model should be extended to the cloud environment amid data growth and increasing adoption of internet of things.

Byron Love, senior program manager of cyber protection services at Raytheon's intelligence, information and services business, has said organizations should adopt automated platforms and train security analysis teams to protect critical infrastructure from threat actors.

Raytheon has tapped Mercury Systems to deliver signal processing and radio frequency systems that will support the development of the U.S. Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor.

Raytheon and Northrop Grumman officials have said that the next-generation jammer pods they are developing for the U.S. Navy will feature self-contained power supplies and the capacity to switch frequencies, C4ISRnet reported Monday.

Raytheon's missile systems business has secured a potential five-year, $16.5M contract to support the development of a universal armament interface for the U.S. Air Force.

Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO at Raytheon and a 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, has said that organizations' information and operational technology teams need to work together to ensure a strong cybersecurity posture.

Raytheon and Saab conducted flight tests for a shoulder-launched weapon system designed to engage moving and stationary targets.

Toby O'Brien, chief financial officer of Raytheon, told Defense One in an interview published Thursday that the company “did get some incremental work“ when it comes to hypersonics and counter-hypersonics and saw its backlog rise to approximately $750M through the third quarter of 2019.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 29, 2019 “” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) received a potential 10-year, $300M contract to supply NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with flight software and space platforms, GovCon Wire reported Oct. 9.

The Air Traffic Control Association has recognized a Raytheon team that built a ground-based detect and avoid system to help the U.S. government facilitate the integration of drones into the public airspace. Raytheon said Tuesday its GBDAA team accepted an award during ATCA's 64th annual conference and exposition in recognition of collaborative efforts with the Air Force Research Laboratory, government agencies and academic institutions.

ZeroNorth has partnered with Raytheon to expand the distribution of the former's cybersecurity products across the globe.

Raytheon has partnered with AirMap, an airspace management platform developer, to combine the latter's platform with the former's Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System to help small unmanned aerial system operators comply with airspace regulations.

Raytheon has exhibited at the Association of the U.S. Army's annual conference its proposed radar for the Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor program meant to replace the Patriot air-and-missile defense radar system. C4ISRNET reported Monday.