TEWKSBURY, Mass., April 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company
(NYSE: RTN) and the U.S. Navy conducted the Preliminary Design
Review for the new Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar, confirming
system development is on track for delivery to the designated ship
classes. The PDR followed several EASR milestones completed as
planned on the development schedule, including the combined Systems
Requirements and System Functional Reviews, and the Integrated
Baseline Review.
EASR is the U.S. Navy's advanced radar for aircraft carriers and
amphibious warfare ships, providing simultaneous anti-air warfare,
anti-surface warfare, and air traffic control mission capabilities.
It delivers increased performance, higher reliability and
sustainability, and lower total ownership cost than the radars it
replaces. EASR is the replacement for the Volume Search Radar for
the CVN 78 class, and the AN/SPS-48 and AN/SPS-49 radar systems for
numerous ship classes.
"Each EASR development milestone brings us closer to providing
this needed mission capability to our Sailors and Marines deployed
on aircraft carriers and amphibious ships," said U.S. Navy Capt.
Seiko Okano, major program manager
for Above Water Sensors, Program Executive Office Integrated
Warfare Systems. "As the PDR confirmed, the technical and design
maturity of this advanced radar is right where it should be."
The PDR validated Raytheon's scaled design leveraging the
AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar, configured into a
rotating and a fixed face variant to match the missions of the
multiple ship classes. EASR is built on Radar Modular Assembly
technology which has been matured through development – and recent
test successes – of AN/SPY-6 for the DDG 51 Flight III destroyers.
Each RMA is a self-contained radar in a 2'x2'x2' box. These
individual radars can integrate together to form arrays of various
sizes.
The commonality - in both hardware and software – with SPY-6
offers a host of advantages, including performance, availability
and reliability; maintenance, training, logistics and lifecycle
support. Following the progress and performance successes of
AN/SPY-6, both radars continue to demonstrate their capabilities to
meet the mission needs, the maturity of the technology, and the
inherent innovation and flexibility of the design.
About Raytheon
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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
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