TEWKSBURY, Mass., Dec. 14, 2006 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company's
(NYSE: RTN) DDG 1000 Ship Control System Navigation System Component team
successfully completed a design review at Raytheon Integrated Defense
Systems' Expeditionary Warfare Center (EWC) in San Diego, Calif.
The current DDG 1000 Ship Control System design baseline was found to
be mature, and Raytheon received authorization to proceed with the system's
detailed design. Achieving this milestone was the result of close
collaboration between the Raytheon EWC team and U.S. Navy's Space & Naval
Warfare Systems Command Systems Center-San Diego (SSC-SD) systems
engineering, hardware engineering and specialty engineering teams.
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems is the prime contractor for the DDG
1000's mission system equipment and is developing the entire interface
electronics between the sensors and Total Ship Computing Environment
Infrastructure (TSCEI) based on the Navy's open architecture model. SSC-SD
is providing the functionality that performs the integration of the sensor
inputs to generate a common DDG 1000 navigation message across the TSCEI.
In this navigation system design effort, Raytheon is integrating
several different sensors to create a common navigation message. This
message is then distributed to the Advanced Gun System and other ship
systems, which require precise navigational information to perform their
missions.
"This was the best way to leverage the Navy's investment through
research and development of navigation technologies, allowing the system to
evolve the Navy into the 21st century," said Pete Shaw, Marine Navigation
deputy division head at SSC-SD.
Under the Navy's DDG 1000 Detail Design and Integration contract
awarded in 2005, Raytheon IDS serves as the prime mission systems equipment
integrator for all electronic and combat systems for the DDG 1000 Zumwalt
Class Destroyer program.
Based in Tewksbury, Mass., Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's
leader in Joint Battlespace Integration. With a broad international and
domestic customer base, Raytheon IDS provides a wide spectrum of integrated
air and missile defense and naval and maritime warfighting solutions.
Raytheon Company, with 2005 sales of $21.9 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.
Note to Editors: For more information visit
http://www.raytheon.com/products/ddg1000.
Contact:
Chuck Larrabee
978.858.4259
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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CONTACT:
Chuck Larrabee of Raytheon Company,
+1-978-858-4259
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