A Raytheon Technologies business and Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems have demonstrated a cruise missile interceptor’s capability to integrate with the U.S. Marine Corps’ radar, command and control technology and weapon system components. Raytheon Missiles and Defense said Friday the Medium Range Interceptor Capability underwent a live fire test to showcase its ability to […] More

The Department of Defense and its Detroit-based manufacturing innovation institute LIFT have awarded a Hypersonics Challenge project to Raytheon Technologies. Raytheon will study how modeling and simulation could help accelerate the development of high-temperature materials for hypersonic systems, LIFT said Wednesday. Andreas Roelofs, vice president of research at Raytheon and director of the Raytheon Technologies […] More

A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary continues to provide support to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s on-orbit evaluation of a small satellite that was launched in December 2021. AFRL deployed the Blue Canyon Technologies-built Ascent spacecraft to test in geostationary orbit the performance of commercial satellite systems, including a cold gas propulsion system from the Georgia Institute […] More

Raytheon Technologies has secured a three-year, $102.2 million contract that provides for guided missile round packs, spare replacement parts and recertification for the Block 2 and 2A variants of the Rolling Airframe Missile system for the U.S. Navy and four foreign military sales customers. Seventy-five percent of RAM purchases come from the Navy while the […] More

A subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies has invested in Firehawk Aerospace through a Series A funding round to support the start up’s development of custom-made hybrid rocket engines. Raytheon Missiles and Defense will collaborate with Firehawk to research the feasibility of integrating the latter’s hybrid propulsion engine technology into future missile systems, the defense contractor said […] More

Raytheon Technologies has booked a potential $46.3 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to explore radar component designs under the Agnostic Signal Processing for Increased Radar Efficiency program. The company will study radar-related designs aimed at enabling flexible digital beamforming, advanced signal processing, novel signal synthesizer architectures and smaller digital receiver-exciter systems, the […] More

Raytheon Technologies has selected CAES to provide line replaceable units for the U.S. Navy’s AN/SPY-6 radar system. CAES said Tuesday the hardware production and sustainment award from Raytheon’s missiles and defense business came after it completed the low-rate initial production phase as part of the Navy’s Air & Missile Defense Radar program. “The HP&S award […] More

Raytheon Technologies has installed a new terminal system that would provide the U.S. Air Force with protected communications for nuclear and non-nuclear missions. Raytheon said Monday its intelligence and space business is currently under a nearly $600 million contract to modernize the Air Force’s protected communications platforms using the Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal. Each […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business has demonstrated its High Energy Laser Weapon System paired with a Norwegian anti-missile technology to deter unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Thursday HELWS received and used target cues from the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System’s Fire Distribution Center during a demonstration at White Sands Missile Range. The cues, […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space unit has invested in Canada-based Gastops to support the latter’s research and development collaboration with Pratt & Whitney, which is also a Raytheon business. Gastops said Thursday it expects the investment, which was awarded through Canada’s Industrial and Technological Benefits program, to support the development of products envisioned to provide […] More

NASA’s recently launched James Webb Space Telescope leverages ground control and flight operation systems built by Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business unit to perform its solar system exploration and observation mission. Raytheon Intelligence & Space said Tuesday its ground control software works to monitor the condition and performance of the Hubble telescope’s successor and […] More

A Raytheon Technologies subsidiary has received $30 million worth of contracts to modernize the open-architecture radar warning receivers on the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 fighter fleet. The updates are aimed at enabling the AN/ALR-69A(V) all-digital radar warning receiver to detect new and advanced threat signals emitted by enemy systems, Raytheon Intelligence and Space said Thursday. […] More