TEWKSBURY, Mass., March 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon
Company's (NYSE: RTN) AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar
searched for, acquired and tracked a ballistic missile test target
during the radar's first dedicated Ballistic Missile Defense
exercise at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF),
Kauai, Hawaii. This result
followed a series of successes for AN/SPY-6, including the tracking
of integrated air and missile defense targets of opportunity,
satellites and aircraft.
"We remain on track to deliver an unprecedented capability to
the Fleet. The live testing we've been doing here at PMRF continues
to demonstrate the maturity of the hardware and software and the
performance of the overall system. The radar performed exactly as
we expected it to during this mission – all systems were green,"
said Raytheon's Tad Dickenson,
director of the Air and Missile Defense Radar program. "These
successes are significant achievements and a testament to the
expertise and commitment of this Government and Raytheon team."
"This marked a historic moment for the Navy. It's the first time
a ballistic missile target was tracked by a wideband digital
beamforming radar," said U.S. Navy Captain Seiko Okano, Major Program Manager for Above
Water Sensors, Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems
"AN/SPY-6 is on track for delivery to DDG 51 Flight III."
Since installation at PMRF in May
2016, AMDR has tracked targets of increasing complexity,
demonstrating that the radar is meeting its performance
requirements. In October 2016,
AN/SPY-6 first tracked multiple satellites, hundreds of miles above
Earth, from search and acquisition through their orbits. In the
following month, the radar executed its first integrated air and
missile defense track by simultaneously tracking aircraft and
satellites. Most recently, in conjunction with a Standard Missile 3
Block IIA SFTM-01 flight test, AN/SPY-6 executed an engineering
exercise where it searched for, acquired and tracked a medium range
ballistic missile target, from launch through flight.
These are the most recent milestones as the Navy's new radar
advances on schedule through Engineering and Manufacturing
Development. Soon to transition to Low-Rate Initial Production,
AN/SPY-6(V) remains on track for delivery for the first DDG 51
Flight III destroyer.
About AN/SPY-6(V) AMDR
AN/SPY-6(V) provides greater
capability – in range, sensitivity and discrimination accuracy –
than currently deployed radars, increasing battlespace, situational
awareness and reaction time to effectively counter current and
future threats. It is the first scalable radar, built with Radar
Modular Assemblies - radar building blocks. Each RMA, roughly 2' x
2' x 2' in size, is a standalone radar that can be grouped to build
any size radar aperture, from a single RMA to configurations larger
than currently fielded radars. The U.S. Navy's new Enterprise Air
Surveillance Radar leverages the highly-scalable design and mature
technologies of AN/SPY-6 in a scaled nine-RMA configuration to meet
the mission requirements of carriers and amphibious ships. The
commonality – in both hardware and software – with AN/SPY-6 offers
a host of advantages, including maintenance; training; logistics;
and lifecycle support.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2016 sales of
$24 billion and 63,000 employees, is
a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil
government and cybersecurity solutions. With a history of
innovation spanning 95 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art
electronics, mission systems integration, C5ITM products
and services, sensing, effects, and mission support for customers
in more than 80 countries. Raytheon is headquartered in
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