ANDOVER, Mass., Aug 15,
2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has given the
U.S. Army a look into the future of missile defense technology, as
the company provided its comprehensive vision for the next
generation of air and missile defense radar. The information was
supplied to the Army as part of its process to define the
requirements for a future Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense
Sensor.
"Raytheon's solution for the LTAMDS is based on the more than
$200 million that the company has
invested in Gallium Nitride (GaN) powered Active Electronically
Scanned Array technology," said Ralph
Acaba, vice president of Integrated Air and Missile Defense
at Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems business. "Raytheon showed
it can quickly and affordably design, build, test and field a
GaN-based AESA radar capable of defeating all threats when we
exhibited a potential LTAMDS solution at the winter AUSA tradeshow
this past March."
Raytheon's GaN-based AESA LTAMDS radar is designed to serve as a
sensor on the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command
System network. It will be fully interoperable with NATO, and
also retains backwards compatibility with both the current Patriot
system and any future system upgrades fielded by any of the
13-nations that currently own Patriot.
"Others may draw on lesson learned from the terminated MEADS air
and missile defense project or repeatedly re-baselined naval
radars; Raytheon's LTAMDS solution builds on successful programs
such as the U.S. Navy's Next Generation Jammer and the Air and
Missile Defense Radar," said Doug
Burgess, director of Integrated Air and Missile defense AESA
programs. "Our response, and our AESA GaN radar rollout at
AUSA show there doesn't need to be a wait of a decade or longer to
get the sensor of the future. It will be available much, much
sooner."
About GaN
Raytheon has been leading the innovation and development of
GaN for 17 years and has invested more than $200
million to get this latest technology into the hands of the
military faster and at lower cost and risk. Raytheon has
demonstrated the maturity of the technology in a number of ways,
including exceeding the reliability requirement for insertion into
the production of military systems.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2015 sales of $23
billion and 61,000 employees, is a technology and innovation
leader specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity
solutions. With a history of innovation spanning 94 years, Raytheon
provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration,
C5I™ products and services, sensing, effects, and
mission support for customers in more than 80 countries. Raytheon
is headquartered in Waltham,
Massachusetts. Follow us on Twitter @Raytheon.
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