Raytheon, El Segundo, California, has been awarded a $175,050,289 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit Advanced High Frequency Radar Components and end items. This contract provides for overhaul and repair of the B-2 Advanced High Frequency Radar Components and end items. Work will be performed in El Segundo, …
Read More »Raytheon, Northrop Grumman Awarded Contract for Additional Hypersonic Weapon Advancements
Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, in partnership with Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), was awarded a follow-on contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to reduce risk for future air breathing hypersonic systems. Under the agreement, the Raytheon-led team will build and fly additional Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon …
Read More »US State Dept approves sale of F-35 aircraft to Czech Republic
The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the U.S. State Department has given its approval for the sale of F-35 fighter jets, munitions, and associated equipment to the Czech Republic. The deal, which is valued at up to $5.62 billion, has been notified to Congress by the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation …
Read More »Raytheon Technologies’ Collins Aerospace business selected to participate in multiple EU SESAR air traffic management projects
Raytheon Technologies’ Collins Aerospace business has been selected to participate in eight projects under the European Union’s SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking (SESAR 3 JU). A collaboration between European private and public partners, the SESAR 3 JU aims to accelerate the delivery of the Digital European Sky through the development of …
Read More »Raytheon Wins $263M Order for AIM-9X Sidewinder Missiles
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $263,717,654 modification (P00010) to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive (firm-target) contract (N0001921C0723). This modification exercises options for the production and delivery of AIM-9X missile production Lot 23 requirements to include:–571 AIM-9X Block II all up round tactical missiles (91: Navy, 257: …
Read More »Raytheon Technologies awarded $237 million counter-UAS contract
Raytheon Technologies was awarded a $237 million U.S. Army contract for Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensors (KuRFS) and Coyote® effectors to detect and defeat unmanned aircraft. The contract includes a combination of fixed-site and mobile systems as well as a quantity of effectors, designated to support the Army’s U.S Central Command …
Read More »Raytheon Technologies unveils next-generation electro-optical intelligent-sensing capability
Raytheon Technologies today announced the launch of RAIVEN, a revolutionary electro-optical intelligent-sensing capability, which will enable pilots to have faster and more precise threat identification. RAIVEN can identify objects optically and spectrally simultaneously in real-time — a single electro-optical/infrared, or EO/IR, system has never been able to do this before. …
Read More »Ready to protect the homeland
For decades, the focus of missile defense for the U.S. and its allies has been on nuclear ballistic weapons, which can fly high and fast to strike a target half a world away. But another threat lurks beneath: cruise missiles, which fly lower and slower but, as seen in strikes …
Read More »SPY-6: A versatile and powerful radar in high demand
The U.S. Navy is putting the advanced AN/SPY-6 naval radar on 29 new ships, and now it will add this system to the first existing ships, starting with a $619 million contract with Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business. The SPY-6 radar is significantly more sensitive than the 40-year-old predecessor it’s replacing. …
Read More »Raytheon Wins $239M for Over-the-Horizon Weapon System
Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $234,068,917 firm-fixed-price modification to previously awarded contract N00024-18-C-5432 to exercise options for the Over-the-Horizon Weapon System. Work will be performed in Kongsberg, Norway (69%); Tucson, Arizona (12%); Schrobenhausen, Germany (5%); Raufoss, Norway (4%); Huntsville, Arkansas (4%); Louisville, Kentucky (3%); De Soto, …
Read More »