Kim Ernzen, vice president for air warfare systems product line at Raytheon, told Breaking Defense in an interview published Thursday that the company is developing a supply chain and a system to produce the Naval Strike Missile in the U.S. to create jobs in several states.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Roy Azevedo, president of space and airborne systems at Raytheon, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for his efforts to advance defense systems and integrate modern technology into Raytheon’s infrastructure.

Mark Russell, vice president of engineering, technology and mission assurance at Raytheon, has become an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Raytheon is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to develop a modern, software-based approach for aircraft tracking, Avionics International reported Friday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 5, 2020 — Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) received a five-year, $197M contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop an open framework for the military to process sensor data and get a comprehensive view of missile launch activity, ExecutiveGov reported Jan. 28.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency conducted the third field experiment under an effort that aims to implement the use of autonomous swarms in urban operations.

Tom Arseneault, president and chief operating officer of BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said the two business units the company agreed to acquire from Raytheon and United Technologies Corp. will "bolt into existing businesses" within BAE Systems Inc.’s electronic systems sector, Inside Defense reported Monday.

Evan Hunt, business development director for high-energy lasers at Raytheon, has said the Department of Defense should put more focus on testing counter-unmanned aerial system technology for mid-sized drones, Air Force Magazine reported Thursday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 21, 2020 — The Federal Aviation Administration  Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) to upgrade a system that helps airport personnel manage the arrival and departure of aircraft, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday.

Raytheon has reconfigured a Tomahawk cruise missile system into the Block V version for the U.S. Navy, Seapower Magazine reported Wednesday.

Raytheon has secured a $6M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build a machine learning tool that will work to develop trust between artificial intelligence systems and human users.

Tom Bussing, vice president of advanced missile systems at Raytheon’s missile systems business, wrote in a Defense News commentary published Friday that it is a national imperative for the U.S. to keep its advantage in the development of hypersonic weapons.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 9, 2020 — Todd Probert, a vice president at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), shared his impression of the merger between VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Pivotal Software, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 2.  The combination "is going to make it possible for my team to get code to our customers even faster and easier," Probert said in a statement Dec. 30.

Raytheon has received a four-year, $47.8M contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce missile systems designed to engage fixed and moving targets.

Raytheon's BBN Technologies subsidiary and Charles River Analytics have partnered to create tools that will work to help military analysts classify bias at the sentence and speaker levels.