TEWKSBURY, Mass., Nov. 15, 2005 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE:
RTN) received a $1.3 billion contract modification from the U.S. Army for
system development and demonstration of the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile
Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS).
Raytheon IDS' (Integrated Defense Systems) JLENS provides a long-duration,
wide-area cruise missile defense capability while also providing elevated
communications capabilities and supporting situational awareness for the
battlefield commander.
The system provides over the horizon detection and tracking of incoming
cruise missiles with sufficient warning to enable air defense systems to
engage and defeat the threat. Each JLENS consists of a long-range surveillance
radar and a high performance fire control radar, each integrated in a large
aerostat connected via tether to a ground based processing station. System
testing is scheduled to begin in 2009, with program completion in 2011.
"The JLENS program provides unprecedented capability to our warfighters
through the combination of long range surveillance with precise tracking to
support engagement of a variety of targets over extremely large geographic
areas," said Tim Carey, vice president of IDS Integrated Air Defense. "The
program is an important piece of the Army's strategy to provide a reliable and
robust cruise missile defense by using a network of sensors to support a wide
variety of weapons within the Army system of systems command and control
paradigm."
Work on the program will be performed at Raytheon sites located in
Massachusetts, California, Texas and Maryland. Raytheon's Integrated Defense
Systems will develop the fire control radar and processing station. TCOM,
L.P., based in Maryland, will develop the aerostat and associated ground
equipment.
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, 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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