Raytheon press release:
Raytheon Company has been awarded a seven-month, firm-fixed-price contract to study the NextGen Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance architecture and determine the National Airspace System’s needs for 2018 to 2025. [..]
The study analyzes ICNS interfaces to operator flight planning systems, aircraft capabilities, avionics functions and Federal Aviation Administration automation systems.
The $2.3 million contract [...]
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May 7, 2009
Raytheon awarded $2.3 million contract to study integrated CNS
March 12, 2009
TDDS contract goes to Raytheon; will be SWIM-compliant
The DOT has chosen a Raytheon-led team (press release) to develop and roll out the Terminal Data Distribution system, which will:
automate flight information, resulting in improved capacity in the nation’s airspace. It will facilitate the exchange of net-enabled data between disparate systems and integrate multiple data sources to better manage the airspace.
More information about TDDS [...]
October 20, 2008
NASA to fund radical thinking on the future of commercial flight
The aeronautics research arm of NASA has awarded $12.4 million in grants to six teams, who will develop advanced concepts for commercial aircraft that could enter service around 2035 (press release). The teams, which include industry giants like Northrop-Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon, as well as researchers from MIT, Purdue, Georgia Tech and Tufts, [...]
October 14, 2008
Gloomy outlook for defense biz; contractors looking to IT, training, logistics
Monday’s Washington Post provides some good context around the economic conditions faced by large government contractors. The article’s subhead — “After Eight Boom Years for Spending on Military Equipment, Contractors Expect a Slowdown” — points to looming uncertainty in the defense sector, but also outlines alternative strategies being pursued by Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman [...]
October 11, 2008
$88 million goes to Raytheon for WAAS
The FAA has announced it will exercise its option to retain Raytheon Corp. for follow-on services related to the Wide Area Augemntation System (WAAS). As this award announcement lays out, the company will be paid $88 million for hardware and software upgrades, and additional engineering support meant to specifically improve so-called LPV-200 service (Localizer Performance [...]
October 1, 2008
Raytheon wins DoD, FAA radar contract
Raytheon Co. has won an order from the Department of Defense and FAA worth up to $679 million to install 116 Digital Airport Surveillance radar systems at Air Force and civilian airports around the world, The Associated Press reports. The radar will replace analog systems nearly 30 years old, according to Bloomberg.
