TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 17, 2020 — Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Technologies' (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business, said the company is moving to acquire Blue Canyon Technologies as the demand for comprehensive space technology continues to grow, GovCon Wire reported Wednesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 16, 2020 — Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) helps the U.S. Air Force and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintain systems for analyzing weather conditions to ensure the safety of satellite launch missions, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 9.

Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has partnered with the U.S. Air Force to accelerate response times to 911 calls at areas near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

Raytheon Technologies' integrated defense solutions unit will modernize the government of Qatar's air operations center and alternate AOC under a $77.6M contract from the U.S. Air Force.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has indicated its intent to award Raytheon Technologies a sole-source contract to demonstrate a weapon system for defending military facilities against drone threats. The company would demonstrate a prototype of the Counter Electronic Highpower Microwave Extended Air Base Air Defense system, AFRL said Thursday in a notice of contract action.

A Raytheon Technologies unit will continue to help the U.S. Army National Guard manage and plan combat training exercises under a one-year, $36.5M bridge contract. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will also help maintain range operations and instrumentation, communication and observer controller systems being used to train soldiers in battalion and platoon units, the company said Tuesday.

Raytheon Technologies has partnered with the academe to develop a sensor that works to detect microwave radiation at heightened sensitivity levels.

Raytheon Technologies has developed an open-architecture data management system designed to integrate with disparate platforms used by the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army.

Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has been selected by the U.S. Air Force to provide technology for the service branch's upcoming fleet of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles to detect hostile fire locations.

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business has received a grant from NASA to develop and test a calibration system prototype as part of an effort to improve the quality of the agency’s land imaging data.

The U.S. Air Force has authorized a Raytheon Technologies-built “smart” weapon for fielding on Air Combat Command's F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft following a recent test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The StormBreaker munition uses a multimode seeker technology with infrared, semi-active laser and millimeter wave radar guidance technologies that can work alongside GPS and inertial navigation systems to reach targets over 40 miles away from the aircraft, the company said Tuesday.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has conducted an on-ramp exercise with Raytheon Technologies to test the company’s battle management software with the U.S. Air Force’s command-and-control platform.

Raytheon Technologies will provide an update at the virtual Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting & Exposition on several projects the company is working on for the service branch.

Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business has developed DejaVM, a new hardware emulation and software analysis tool that will provide a virtualized environment that will evaluate and reduce cyber threats against mission-critical systems, the company announced Tuesday.

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business has received a potential five-year, $251M award to further the development of the U.S. Space Force’s satellite data processing framework for missile-warning operations.