GARLAND, Texas, April 18, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE:
RTN) recently demonstrated new key Web-portal capabilities, much like the
Internet, that will improve intelligence sharing across the military
services and intelligence agencies and facilitate closer collaboration.
After the 9/11 Commission stressed that the military services need to
collaborate more closely through improved technologies, Raytheon
demonstrated to program officials in various scenarios an industry-first
hybrid version of its Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Block 10.2.
In the demonstration, Raytheon showed how appropriate personnel could
easily access and view real- world operational mission data.
"The hybrid demonstration depicts how the DCGS can greatly improve
intelligence sharing in the network-centric environment," said Anthony
DiFurio, director for the Tactical Intelligence System business of
Raytheon's Intelligence and Information Systems. "The 10.2 system and its
tools will enhance the user's ability to access and exploit vast amounts of
intelligence data through the DCGS metadata catalog."
The Raytheon team additionally executed a search of the intelligence
data from the experimental Distributed Common Ground System (DGS-X)
metadata catalog. Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System data were picked
from the search query and then displayed. The DGS-X system was the first
DCGS Block 10.2 system to be accepted by the Air Force in August 2006.
When fully fielded, DCGS Block 10.2 will be a worldwide distributed,
network-centric enterprise architecture that enables sharing, discovery and
collaborative intelligence operations and production. Its environment
provides for both the physical and electronic distribution of intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance data, processes, and systems. Raytheon was
the first defense contractor to implement and deliver a service-oriented
architecture to modernize the Air Force's ISR systems.
Based in Garland, Texas, Raytheon IIS is a leading provider of
information and intelligence solutions to the government. Raytheon IIS has
annual revenues of approximately $2.6 billion and employs more than 8,000
engineering and technical professionals worldwide. Raytheon IIS recently
achieved a strategic milestone in earning CMMI Level 3 accreditation across
its enterprise.
Raytheon Company, with 2006 sales of $20.3 billion, is a technology
leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning more
than 80 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission
systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing;
effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as
well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in
Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 73,000 people worldwide.
Contact:
Keith D. Little
703.849.1675
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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CONTACT:
Keith D. Little, of Raytheon Company,
+1-703-849-1675
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