Monica Jackson
Raytheon has used agile development practices in efforts to integrate new features into the baseline software of the U.S. Air Force’s Air and Space Operations Center Weapon System, Flightglobal reported Wednesday.
The company added functions for targeting, battle damage assessment and logistics applications, among other things, into the software to link previously disconnected systems, as well as allow the transmission of information to deployed aircraft and around the command-and-control center.
Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, told Flightglobal in an interview that the agile development method allowed the company to develop features within a short timeline to identify cyber vulnerabilities.
The project is part of a potential six-year, $375M contract that Raytheon received in 2017 from the Air Force Materiel Command to modernize the AOC WS platform, which supports the Air Force’s aircraft command-and-control operations at 22 sites across the globe.
