SAN NICOLAS ISLAND, Calif. The U.S. Navy completed a missile exercise with Raytheon’s Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile. The purpose of the exercise was to demonstrate the missile's strike controllers, located at multiple fleet headquarters, can control and redirect multiple missiles simultaneously.
DULLES, Va. Raytheon expands its cybersecurity portfolio with the acquisition of Virginia-based Foreground Security company, Herndon. The company - titled Raytheon Foreground Security (RFS) - allows Raytheon to gain momentum in security services across federal, international, and commercial markets.
DULLES, Va. Raytheon will provide full lifecycle development and sustainment support as the prime contractor and system integrator for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Network Security Deployment (NSD) division. The single award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract over five years with an option for some orders to extend up to an additional two years, is valued at an estimated $1 billion.
CHINA LAKE, Calif. Engineers at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) at Point Magu are bulking up Raytheon’s Next Generation jammer. Raytheon reports active testing for the jammer at China Lake, California, and authorities at Weapons Division say there are joint plans to integrate the new design into the EA-18G Growler.
TUCSON, Ariz. During a live-fire exercise at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division sea range off the coast of California, USS Coronado (LCS 4) fired Raytheon’s Rolling Airframe Missile from a SeaRAM anti-ship defense system.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The BBN Technologies unit of Raytheon has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to research optimized information flow for military operations over wide area networks under the Edge-Directed Cyber Technologies for Reliable Mission Communication (EdgeCT) program. The goal of the program is to ensure communications are secure and less susceptible to network failures that result from cyberattacks and common errors.
JOINT PACIFIC ALASKA RANGE COMPLEX, Ala. In a joint effort during the biannual Northern Edge exercise in Alaska, the U.S. Naval Research Lab and Raytheon conducted a flight test with the CEREBRUS design on the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer (MALD-J). The demonstration used IndyCar racing technology and allowed for quick replacement architecture on electronic warfare (EW) payloads.