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RTX’s Raytheon and Composite Energy Technology successfully demonstrate new unmanned undersea vehicle
Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, and Composite Energy Technologies (CET) have successfully demonstrated the undersea launch capabilities of HADALUS, a new, low-cost, long-endurance unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV). During a recent U.S. Navy exercise, the UUV completed a series of at-sea missions on a Navy undersea test range, successfully demonstrating its undersea launch capabilities while submerged. This marks the first…
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NASA Selects Raytheon Company to Build Landsat Next Instruments
NASA selects Raytheon Company to provide three instruments and related services, with an option for one additional instrument, in support of the Landsat Next mission based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The contract includes a cost-plus-award-fee base period and a cost-plus-fixed-fee option period with a total value of $506.7 million. The contractor will provide the design,…
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RTX’s Raytheon Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor detects and engages complex target
Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, today announced that its Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, or LTAMDS, continues to advance through its U.S. Army test program with another successful live-fire event. Military leaders from seven nations were on-site to witness the radar’s capabilities and performance first-hand. Raytheon’s LTAMDS completed its latest round of live fire testing, effectively demonstrating…
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Raytheon Technologies delivers fourth combat-ready laser weapon to U.S. Air Force
Last fall, the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and Raytheon Technologies successfully tested the Air Force’s first palletized high-energy laser weapon during four days of continuous live-fire exercises at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Raytheon’s palletized laser weapon is the first 10-kilowatt laser built to U.S. military specifications in a stand-alone configuration that can be moved and…
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Raytheon Technologies completes delivery of 23 Joint Precision Approach and Landing Systems to the U.S. Navy
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) delivered all 23 contracted Joint Precision Approach and Landing Systems low-rate production units to the U.S. Navy on time or ahead of schedule. JPALS is a software-based GPS navigation and precision approach landing system that guides aircraft onto carriers and amphibious assault ships regardless of sea state or weather conditions, bolstering safety and operational capability. It…
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Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Northrop Grumman successfully test fire hypersonic weapon
Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, in partnership with Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), successfully completed the first flight test of a scramjet-powered Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force. The companies are on track to deliver a prototype system to the U.S. Department of Defense.…
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Raytheon Intelligence & Space to begin Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band production
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business (NYSE: RTX), has been awarded a $171.6 million contract for Low-Rate Initial Production Lot I, or LRIP I, of the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band. The award advances the program from the development stage into production and deployment. An EA-18G Growler from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23, located at Naval Air…
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Raytheon Missiles & Defense’s StormBreaker® smart weapon approved for fielding on the F-15 Eagle
TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business (NYSE: RTX), today announced the StormBreaker® smart weapon has been approved for use on the F-15E by the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command. The fielding decision means that F-15E squadrons can now be equipped with StormBreaker and deployed for missions. An F-15E carries a StormBreaker® smart weapon…
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Raytheon building machine learning system that knows what it knows
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) is developing a machine learning technology under a $6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the Competency Aware Machine Learning program. Systems will be able to communicate the abilities they have learned, the conditions under which the abilities were learned, the strategies they recommend and the situations for which those…
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Spear Provides Battery to Raytheon for Innovative Counter-UAS Laser System
GRANDVIEW, Mo., Oct. 29, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Spear Power Systems, Inc. (Spear) has provided an advanced lithium-ion battery system to Raytheon for the first counter-unmanned aerial system (CUAS) delivered to the U.S. Air Force. The system will be deployed overseas as part of a year-long Air Force experiment to train operators and test the system’s effectiveness in real-world conditions. Raytheon The highly compact battery delivers a…
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