TEWKSBURY, Mass., April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In its first year,
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has met all critical milestones in the
development of the U.S. Navy's AN/SPY-6(V) integrated Air and
Missile Defense Radar (AMDR).
Since work officially began in January
2014, the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD)
phase of the program – now 35 percent complete - has advanced in
design, risk reduction and maturity, placing it on track for
delivery to the Navy's Flight III DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class
destroyer. DDG 51 Flight III is scheduled to begin construction in
2016.
"Our achievement of all plan milestones to date is a true
testament to our experts, our well-established radar development
infrastructure, and the collaborative working partnerships with the
full government-industry team," said Raytheon's Kevin Peppe, vice president of Integrated
Defense Systems' Seapower Capability Systems business area.
"Continuing on schedule, the AMDR program is on track to highlight
and demonstrate current system and technology maturity at the
upcoming system-critical design review--our next key validation and
verification milestone."
Along with the successful completion of all major contract
design reviews to date, throughout the first year of EMD, the
program has:
- Built a risk-reduction pilot array for hardware, software and
integration testing at the company's Near Field Range in
Sudbury, Mass.
- Delivered the first of four 'builds' of working software in
less than eight months; Build Two is more than 50% complete.
- Software tracked simulated, simultaneous Anti-Air Warfare and
ballistic missile targets
- Completed the first Engineering Development Model
production-representative Radar Modular Assembly (RMA); currently
testing in pilot array
- Completed a functional SPY-6 variant, scaled down to a single
RMA, actively tracking live targets using actual hardware and
AMDR-derived software
- Completed and delivered the first set of external combat system
interface definition language (IDL) to the Combat System
Integration Working Group, which includes the Navy and Lockheed
Martin
- Continued progress with radar array production, including the
completion of:
- More than 45,000 Gallium Nitride (GaN) and Gallium Arsenide
(GaAS)-based Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
- More than 400 Transmit/Receive Modules; with more than 1,000 in
progress
Raytheon has implemented an Agile development and management
methodology for AMDR. This approach supports the ongoing hardware
and software design verification, technology maturity,
producibility, and risk-reduction imperatives – yielding benefits
in productivity, quality and affordability.
About SPY-6(V) AMDR
SPY-6(V) is the next-generation integrated air and ballistic
missile defense radar for the U.S. Navy, filling a critical
capability gap for the surface fleet. It is the first truly
scalable radar, built with radar building blocks (Radar Modular
Assemblies) that can be grouped to form any size radar aperture,
either smaller or larger than currently fielded radars. All
cooling, power, command logic and software are scalable. This
scalability could allow for new instantiations, such as back-fit on
existing DDG 51 destroyers and installation on aircraft carriers,
amphibious warfare ships, frigates, or the DDG 1000 class, without
significant radar development costs.
Leveraging GaN technology to optimize power in a smaller size
and using less space, power and cooling than older technology would
require for the same performance, AMDR is a key enabler for the
capability and performance enhancements of the new DDG 51 Flight
III ship. SPY-6(V) for DDG 51 Flight III is designed with high
operational availability and reliability to minimize overall
ownership cost.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of $23
billion and 61,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and
innovation leader specializing in defense, security and civil
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning
93 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission
systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing;
effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence
systems, as well as cyber security and a broad range of mission
support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more about Raytheon, visit
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