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Raytheon has unveiled a medium-range, air-to-air missile designed to build up the capability of fighter jets to counter hostile drones, cruise missiles, manned aircraft and other airborne threats.

Dynetics has tapped Raytheon to manufacture and deliver control, actuation and power-conditioning sub-assemblies that work to provide the U.S. Army’s Common-Hypersonic Glide Body system with flight control functions.

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have agreed to extend joint technology integration activities to support the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept program.

Raytheon has begun efforts to help the Department of Defense build and deploy hypersonic vehicles and related platforms to counter the potential threat posed by hypersonic systems from Russia and China.

Raytheon has tested a hot-fire rocket motor in support of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to integrate missiles’ guided projectile features with defensive gun systems’ rapid-fire function.

Raytheon has showcased two directed energy platforms that were able to destroy drone targets as part of an experimental demonstration for the U.S. Air Force.

Raytheon has tested the motor of a surface-to-surface weapon system the company is offering to the U.S. Army as a potential replacement for the service branch's aging Tactical Missile System.

Raytheon has secured a potential $63.3M contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency further the development of a tactical boost glide system designed to operate at a hypersonic speed.

Raytheon hosted a circuit board build contest in a move to foster student interest in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. The challenge took place during the MathMovesU Day on Feb. 4 at the University of Arizona where Raytheon engineers guided Tucson-based elementary students through construction and inspection of circuit boards, the company said Feb. 12.

Raytheon has reached a milestone in development of its long-range weapon system  offering for the U.S. Army‘s Precision Strike Missile program. The company said Tuesday its technicians worked with Army personnel and Marines to install a launch pod container on M142 HIMARS and M270 MLRS rocket launchers at Fort Sill in Oklahoma as part …

Raytheon has shipped the first small satellite for the Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements program to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for integration onto a Spaceflight Industries payload. The defense contractor said Wednesday it designed the SeeMe satellite to provide real-time tactical imagery to American soldiers deployed in …

Aviation Week has recognized Raytheon and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with the publication’s Laureate Award for the deployment of company-built Coyote unmanned aerial vehicles to track and model Hurricane Maria last year. NOAA launched six Coyote UAVs from a Lockheed Martin-built WP-3D Orion aircraft in efforts to help agency researchers view the storm and examine its …

Raytheon has received a $5.7 million contract to provide baseline system design for a  U.S. Army program that aims to develop new missile technology to replace the service branch’s inventory of long-range, surface-to-surface missiles. The company said Tuesday the nine-month contract will support risk reduction efforts for the Long Range Precision Fires program. Thomas Bussing, …

Raytheon and Israel-based unmanned air system manufacturer UVision to develop and offer small loitering airborne technology to U.S. military organizations. Raytheon said Friday it seeks to adapt UVision’s man-packed, canister-launched Hero-30 system to make it perform lethal target engagement, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance functions. The company intends for the modified technology to help address the U.S. Army‘s Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System …

Raytheon has created an unmanned aircraft systems directorate under its advanced missile systems product line in Arizona in efforts to consolidate the elements of small UAS production including airframe, payload integration and command-and-control technology. The company said Tuesday it will also increase delivery of its Coyote and Silver Fox UAS platforms to address a growth in small …