TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy's revolutionary
DD(X) destroyer program passed two critical milestones in the past month with
the successful completion of Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs) by the U.S.
Navy on two of the ship's subsystems: the Total Ship Computing Environment
(TSCE) and the MK 57 Vertical Launching System (VLS).
"We are making significant progress on the design of DD(X)," said Mike
Hoeffler, Raytheon vice president for DD(X), "and the successful completion of
these PDRs -- on schedule -- reflects the Navy's judgement that our design
work is on-target."
Under a three-year $1.3 billion contract, Raytheon Integrated Defense
Systems serves as the weapon and electronic systems integrator for DD(X) --
the next-generation destroyer for the U.S. Navy that will revolutionize naval
technology for the 21st century. As part of this effort, Raytheon is
completing design work on eight major subsystems, including the TSCE and the
MK 57 VLS.
The TSCE will integrate all of the warfighting and peacetime electronic
operations of the ship into a common enterprise computing environment; it is
being designed to the Navy's Open Architecture model to facilitate future
system changes and reduce costs. The MK 57 is designed to fire all of the
missiles currently in the U.S. Navy inventory and projected to be in inventory
for the foreseeable future. MK 57 also is scalable to accept the heavier
missiles that could potentially be used in the future for ballistic missile
defense and lighter missiles such as the Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM).
Both the TSCE and MK 57 VLS will be used on other Navy ships now under
development.
Raytheon and program prime Northrop Grumman Ship Systems lead a national
team of top defense companies designing DD(X). The Navy plans to award detail
design and construction of the lead DD(X) in fiscal year 2005.
Based in Tewksbury, Mass., Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's leader
in mission systems integration. With a strong international and domestic
customer base including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Armed
Forces, Integrated Defense Systems provides integrated air and missile defense
and naval and maritime warfighting solutions.
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2002 sales of $16.8 billion, is an
industry leader in defense, government and commercial electronics, space,
information technology, technical services, and business and special mission
aircraft. With headquarters in Lexington, Mass., Raytheon employs more than
76,000 people worldwide.
Contact:
Chuck Larrabee
978-858-4259
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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