TEWKSBURY, Mass., Jan. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon
Company (NYSE: RTN) announced its AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile
Defense Radar (AMDR) team has completed the first full radar array,
fully populated with component Line Replaceable Units (LRUs),
including more than 5,000 Transmit/Receive elements, in 140 days.
In less than two years, the radar has been designed, built and
transitioned to test; the Engineering and Manufacturing Development
(EMD) phase of the program is now more than 66 percent
complete. The program remains on track to begin production and
deliver on time to the FY16 authorized DDG 51 Flight III
destroyer.
"As each milestone is completed, development of the SPY-6 radar
progresses on schedule," said U.S. Navy Captain Seiko Okano, major program manager, Above Water
Sensors (IWS 2.0). "With this array, now built and operational in
the Near Field Range, we're proceeding to plan and commencing
full-scale integration and test of AMDR's unprecedented
capability."
Subcontractor Major Tool and Machine delivered the array
structure to Raytheon's Near Field Range on July 29; and Raytheon installed all passive RF
components before September 1. The
first Radar Modular Assembly (RMA) was powered up in October and
testing began. All RMA chassis were installed by October 16, complete with cooling, power,
fiber-optic control and data interfaces. In 79 days the array
infrastructure was complete – verification of the simplicity of the
AMDR array design. Population of the array with Transmit Receive
Integrated Multi-channel Modules and Distributed Receiver/Exciter
LRUs completed on December 16.
These recent achievements are among the many successes and
milestones realized to date, including:
- Nine of nine major program milestones completed on schedule,
including hardware and software Critical Design Reviews and the
Development Test Event 2 (DT-2) Readiness Review
- Transition to DT-2 - currently in process, culminating in 2016
with verification of hardware level specifications to requirements
and shipment of the array to the Pacific Missile Range Facility in
Hawaii for system validation
testing (DT-3)
- Completed Build 2 software early, with all planned
functionality (30 capabilities), formally qualified in July 2016; Build 3 is more than 75% percent
complete
- 95% of EMD hardware production is complete; awaiting final
power systems delivery in early 2016
"Our solid performance leverages our high-power AESA radar and
digital beam-forming expertise and our collaborative partnerships
with the Navy and a network of dedicated suppliers," said
Tad Dickenson, Raytheon's AMDR
program director. "Benefits in productivity, quality and
affordability continue to be realized as a result of our mature
Agile development methodology. In fact, the AMDR software
development team achieved a greater than 99 percent pass rate at
system test, all driven by Agile processes for early and
incremental testing and defect identification."
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 scalable radar, built with RMAs - 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.
All cooling, power, command logic and software are scalable,
allowing for new instantiations without significant radar
development costs.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of
$23 billion and 61,000 employees
worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in
defense, civil government and cybersecurity 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 cybersecurity and a broad range of mission support services.
Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham,
Mass. For more about Raytheon, visit us at www.raytheon.com
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