Raytheon has secured a four-year $234 million initial low-rate production contract from the US Navy to outfit all of its nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships with 23 Joint Precision Approach and Landing Systems. Since 2018, US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II fighter pilots have used JPALS to guide them onto the ...
Raytheon has signed a strategic agreement with AirMap, an airspace intelligence platform for drones, to collaborate on future projects to safely integrate unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into the national airspace system and unlock the positive economic and social benefits of expanded commercial drone operations. Matt Gilligan, Vice President of Raytheon’s Intelligence, ...
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have signed a teaming agreement to develop, produce and integrate Northrop Grumman’s scramjet combustors to power Raytheon’s air-breathing hypersonic weapons. The agreement combines capabilities of both companies to accelerate development and demonstrate readiness to produce the next generation of tactical missile systems. Scramjet engines use high vehicle speed ...
Raytheon engineers are integrating a Warfighter-Machine Interface (WMI) into PDB 8.1, a soon-to-be-fielded Patriot upgrade. This new command and control technology allows coalition operators of Raytheon’s combat-proven Patriot air and missile defence system to view complex data in a new, easy-to-understand way. WMI replaces pixelated shapes and a complex directory system with the type of 3-D visuals, ...