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RTX’s Mobile Ground Control Approach System Delivered to U.S. Air Force
Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has delivered vehicle-mounted air traffic control systems to the U.S. Air Force to provide air traffic management in the most contested environments. The units – called Air Traffic Navigation, Integration, and Coordination Systems (ATNAVICS) – are full air traffic control systems that are easily transported to support more austere environments. The systems incorporate…
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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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U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Collins Aerospace Complete U-2 SYERS-2C Upgrades, Enhancing the Dragon Lady’s Imaging Capability
PALMDALE, Calif., Feb. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Air Force, Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies (NYSE: UTX), and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® (NYSE: LMT) recently completed flight testing and deployment of the latest variant of the Collins Aerospace Senior Year Electro-Optical Reconnaissance System (SYERS) sensor, SYERS-2C, on the U-2. With this milestone, the entire U-2 fleet has been upgraded…
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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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Second Lockheed Martin-Built Next Generation GPS III Satellite Responding to Commands, Under Self-Propulsion
DENVER, Aug. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Air Force’s second next-generation GPS III satellite, built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), is responding to commands, under control and now using its own internal propulsion system to get to orbit following its successful launch this morning. GPS III SV02 launched Aug. 22, 2019 and is responding to commands. At about 11:01 a.m. ET, Air…
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Raytheon developing advanced laser systems for US Air Force deployment
MCKINNEY, Texas, Aug. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) will deploy two prototype high energy laser weapon systems to troops overseas under a U.S. Air Force contract. The Air Force experimentation includes 12 months of in-field operation against unmanned aerial systems and operator training. Raytheon’s mobile high energy laser looks out into a wide-open sky. The company’s advanced high power…
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U.S. Air Force and Raytheon collaborate to modernize space command and control system
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and a consortium of tech firms led by Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) are modernizing and simplifying the legacy Space Defense Operations Center, a 1990s-era system that tracks and monitors space debris. Dave Fuino, program director for Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, said: “Within just a few months we brought…
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