EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)
has been awarded a $37.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to define,
analyze, design and demonstrate a Space-Based Radar (SBR) pre-prototype
payload consisting of an electronic scanned array and an on-board processing
component. The Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air
Force Base, Calif., is the contracting agency.
The developmental payload will be designed to meet the tactical/national
user near real-time data needs for ground moving target indication (GMTI),
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and digital terrain elevation data.
"By combining SAR, GMTI, and digital terrain elevation data, Space-Based
Radar will be able to track and target stationary or moving combatants in near
real time, almost anywhere on earth, at anytime," said Carol Curry, vice
president of Strategic Systems at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. "The
tremendous capability and transformational nature of this program are
extremely important to both the future of America's persistent situational
awareness and to Raytheon Company."
Contract work is scheduled to be complete by September 2004.
Raytheon Company's Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) designs, develops and
manufactures advanced systems for precision engagement; missile defense; and
intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Headquartered in El Segundo,
Calif., SAS has 11,000 employees and additional facilities in Goleta, Calif.;
Forest, Miss.; Dallas, McKinney and Plano, Texas; and several international
locations.
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:
Pennington Way IV
310.647.9067
pway@raytheon.com
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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