Matthew Gilligan, vice president of navigation and modernization solutions at Raytheon, has said that the company“™s Skyler surveillance radar will help address challenges in air traffic management, which now include emerging urban air mobility platforms.

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The Air Traffic Control Association has recognized a Raytheon team that built a ground-based detect and avoid system to help the U.S. government facilitate the integration of drones into the public airspace. Raytheon said Tuesday its GBDAA team accepted an award during ATCA's 64th annual conference and exposition in recognition of collaborative efforts with the Air Force Research Laboratory, government agencies and academic institutions.

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Curt Dukes, former director of the National Security Agency‘s information assurance directorate, has joined the Center for Internet Security as executive vice president. He will oversee the center’s security best practices automation group that handles  CIS controls and security benchmarks as well as tools designed to automate standards evaluation, CIS said Tuesday. Dukes will also lead efforts to expand the nonprofit’s standards content, […] More

Raytheon has finished three initial readiness exercises on a component of the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System that works to support the launch of GPS III satellites. Raytheon said Thursday it sought to evaluate the capability of Raytheon-built Launch and Checkout System to manage operations such as space anomalies that satellites might encounter, transfer orbit configurations and contacts […] More

Raytheon has shipped the initial hardware it built for the operational control technology of the U.S. Air Force“™s global positioning system. The company said Thursday GPS OCX is designed to oversee the movements and capabilities of GPS satellites during ground, naval and aerial missions and safeguard the equipment from potential cyber threats. The Colorado-based Schriver […] More

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have jointly tested the command and control features of the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS III satellite during a fourth launch readiness exercise. The companies demonstrated automatic data transfer between the Lockheed-built satellite and a Raytheon-made operational control system, Raytheon said Wednesday. The evaluation also sought to demonstrate the infrastructure’s maneuver planning, […] More

Raytheon has wrapped up a software iteration design assessment on the operational control system the company built to help the U.S. Air Force launch a GPS III satellite. GPS OCX is designed to support the Air Force’s command, control and mission operations for the GPS satellite constellation and protect the system from cyber threats, Raytheon said […] More

Jill Singer, former National Reconnaissance Office chief information officer, and John Gilligan, a former SRA International senior vice president of the defense group, have been appointed co-chairs of AFCEA International’s cyber committee. The cyber committee comprises of representatives from government, private sector and academic institutions that aim to facilitate dialogue on cyber issues through meetings […] More

The U.S. Navy has received the first production unit of a system Raytheon Technologies built to help military personnel land aircraft onto a carrier or an amphibious assault vessel.

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Raytheon has performed the second demonstration of a land-based expeditionary variant of its Joint Precision Approach and Landing System before a group of global military officials at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland.

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Raytheon is working with the U.S. military to develop artificial intelligence that will predict the repair schedules of the CV-22 Osprey aircraft“™s radar in order to avoid unnecessary maintenance and expenses.

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Raytheon has produced a sense-and-avoid radar technology for drone testing operations at Ohio's Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport. The airport will use the system to trial the safety of small drones at tests that would take place within a 200-square-mile facility, the company said Tuesday.

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