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  • Navy, MDA Launch Raytheon SM-6 Missiles Using Lockheed's Aegis Combat System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, MDA Launch Raytheon SM-6 Missiles Using Lockheed’s Aegis Combat System

    The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency have test-fired two Raytheon-made Standard Missile-6 Dual I missiles using the Lockheed Martin-built Aegis Combat System  installed on the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones. Lockheed said Wednesday its Aegis platform helped the SM-6 missile detect, track and intercept a ballistic missile target in flight during the Flight Test Standard Missile–27 Event 2. […] More

  • Raytheon Interceptor Missile Undergoes Land-Based Test; Mike Campisi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Interceptor Missile Undergoes Land-Based Test; Mike Campisi Comments

    Raytheon has completed the final land-based test for its interceptor missile designed to support anti-air warfare, anti-surface warfare and sea-based terminal ballistic missile defense operations. The company said Tuesday that the Standard Missile-6 Block IA platform was used to intercept and eliminate a subsonic target from a test site located in southern New Mexico as part […] More

  • DoD OKs Sale of Raytheon SM-6 Missile Tech to International Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD OKs Sale of Raytheon SM-6 Missile Tech to International Customers

    The Defense Department has authorized the sale of Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-6  offering to international customers that seek to adopt the platform to support their shipbuilding programs. Raytheon said Tuesday SM-6 is designed to protect naval ships against ballistic and cruise missiles, fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. Mike Campisi, SM-6 senior program director at Raytheon, said international navies seek […] More

  • Raytheon's SM-6 Missile Completes Latest Navy Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s SM-6 Missile Completes Latest Navy Flight Test

    Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-6 has completed a new U.S. Navy flight test aboard the USS Desert Ship as part of the Naval Integrated Fire Control – Counter Air program. The company said Wednesday the SM-6 launched from the Navy vessel and engaged a simulated, “over-the-horizon” target with off-board airborne sensors. “The ships can now use data from remote sensors to support the […] More

  • Raytheon Enters Full-Rate Production for SM-6 Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Enters Full-Rate Production for SM-6 Missiles

    Raytheon has entered full-rate production of its Standard Missile-6 rocket for the U.S. Navy at the company’s Redstone Arsenal production facility in Alabama. “Full-rate production allows us to significantly ramp up production and deliver to the U.S. Navy the quantities it needs to further increase operational effectiveness,” Mike Campisi, SM-6 senior program director at Raytheon, said Wednesday. The SM-6 […] More

  • Navy OKs More Raytheon SM-6 Weapons for Aegis Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy OKs More Raytheon SM-6 Weapons for Aegis Systems

    The U.S. Navy has approved additional installations of Raytheon Standard Missile-6 weapon system on ships that carry two baselines of Aegis Combat Weapon Systems. More than 35 ships in the Aegis Combat Weapon System baselines 5.3 and 3.A.0 series will be equipped with SM-6, Raytheon said Wednesday. SM-6 weapons work to engage manned and unmanned aerial vehicles and fixed- […] More

  • Navy Conducts 'Engage on Remote' Test of Raytheon SM-6 Interceptors; Mike Campisi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Conducts ‘Engage on Remote’ Test of Raytheon SM-6 Interceptors; Mike Campisi Comments

    A Raytheon-built missile interceptor system has used offboard targeting data to engage targets in a recent at-sea trial conducted by the U.S. Navy. Raytheon said Friday two Standard Missile-6 interceptors launched from a USS Chancellorsville ship by taking cues from another cruiser that was equipped with the Aegis missile defense system during the demonstration. According […] More

  • Raytheon SM-6 Missile Hits Target in Long-Range Navy Demo; Mike Campisi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon SM-6 Missile Hits Target in Long-Range Navy Demo; Mike Campisi Comments

    A Raytheon-developed missile has engaged a target in the U.S. Navy’s long-distance surface-to-air strike demonstration in June. The destroyer USS John Paul Jones launched a set of Standard Missile-6 interceptors to hit over-the-horizon missile targets in a series of three tests, Raytheon said Thursday. SM-6 also destroyed a target moving at supersonic speeds in a […] More