TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 17, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Raytheon
Company's (NYSE: RTN) Project ATHENA has been awarded a $1.1 million cost plus
fixed fee contract modification from the U.S. Department of Defense's Counter-
Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office to further demonstrate the maritime
domain awareness system's capability to provide wide-area surveillance for
coastal and national defense.
Project ATHENA is a joint battlespace information infrastructure that
enables the integration of a wide range of information and data provided by a
variety of sensors and information sources. It provides a common operating
picture of real-time events, which enables responders to quickly discern
information and respond to threats arising from the maritime environment.
"Project ATHENA's ability to rapidly integrate new technologies and
capabilities allows us to adapt to emerging requirements for maritime domain
awareness," said Scott Spence, director of Maritime Domain Awareness Programs
for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS). "Utilizing the Maritime Domain
Awareness Fusion Center test bed and a spiral development philosophy, we're
able to work with our government partners to field capabilities quickly to
enable detection of emerging threats. Project ATHENA provides this country's
defenders the reliable understanding of the maritime environment to
confidently develop and discern actionable intelligence required to rapidly
respond to emerging threats in defense of our homeland."
During the next six months, Project ATHENA will complete Spiral 3
development, which includes the integration of other sensors and information
sources, a refinement of anomaly detection and response capabilities, and
further integration with other existing command, control, communications, and
computers nodes. The contract modification calls for Raytheon IDS team
members from its Joint Battlespace Integration Business Area to demonstrate
the system capabilities and core services using the Maritime Domain Awareness
Fusion Center at Raytheon IDS's Naval Integration Center in Portsmouth, R.I.
This award follows a successful functionality demonstration test conducted
during an operational field demonstration of the ATHENA capabilities for
maritime border security in western New York. The 45-day field demonstration
evaluated operator requirements, surveillance doctrines, and fusion center
services in the Lake Ontario region near Buffalo, N.Y.
Raytheon IDS serves as the global mission systems integrator for Project
ATHENA, working closely with other industry partners as well as homeland
security and defense agencies to provide national maritime domain awareness at
minimum cost to enable effective understanding of anything in the maritime
environment that could adversely affect America's security, safety, economy or
environment.
Based in Tewksbury, Mass., Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's leader
in joint battlespace 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 a wide spectrum of integrated air
and missile defense and naval and maritime warfighting solutions.
Raytheon Company, with 2004 sales of $20.2 billion, is an industry leader
in defense and government electronics, space, information technology,
technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With
headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 80,000 people worldwide.
Contact:
Guy Shields
978.858.5246
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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