TEWKSBURY, Mass., Dec. 13, 2005 /PRNewswire/ -- Demonstrating an
affordable and proven capability to strengthen America's port security,
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) officials and Rhode Island
legislative leaders recently commemorated the opening of the Athena Maritime
Domain Awareness Fusion Center with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
The Athena system fuses a large number of existing sensor data to provide
decision makers with the real-time maritime situational awareness they need to
enable quick, responsive actions to protect the country's shoreline.
"Athena is a key information fusion program for the defense of our
homeland," said Mary Petryszyn, vice president of IDS Joint Battlespace
Integration (JBI) business area. "Athena is a multi-domain awareness system
that uses live feeds from existing surveillance assets, fused with data from
multiple databases and intelligence sources, to provide situational awareness
for global, regional, and local level decision makers. This capability has
been deployed and is proven. It also has applicability to other homeland
security missions."
Attending the event were Gov. Don Carcieri, Sen. Jack Reed, Sen. Lincoln
Davenport Chafee, Congressman Patrick Kennedy, and Congressman Jim Langevin,
who joined IDS President Dan Smith and Petryszyn in cutting the ribbon.
"Affordability for our customers is vital. That's why JBI is focused on
leveraging existing systems across the customer community into broader joint
integrated mission capabilities, thereby taking advantage of investments that
have been made and in turn creating new capabilities that are cost effective
and fielded rapidly," said Petryszyn.
Joint Battlespace Integration is the integration of knowledge, assets, and
capabilities across multiple Department of Defense and Department of Homeland
Security missions, bringing effective solutions for warfighter advantage.
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 (NYSE: RTN), 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
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