![The guided missile destroyer USS O'Kane(DDG 77) fires a Mk54 recoverable exercise torpedo out of the Surface Vessel Torpedo Tube during Combat Systems Ship Qualifications and Trials (U.S. Navy Photo by Yeoman 3rd Class Armand Garcia/Released)](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/rmd/what-we-do/naval-warfare/effectors/mk54/2021-08/images/mk-54-hero.jpg?rev=3817583126c3469681cb284c171d70db)
Raytheon’s Advanced Technology team incubates capabilities that fuel the future of defense. Together with leading research and development organizations, defense agencies, peers and partners, we are creating ways to advance how tomorrow’s battles are fought and won. With a focus on cutting-edge components to full-scale solutions, early ideation to production readiness, seabed to space, we shape the systems and solutions that advance defense.
Advanced Weapons
We combine the power of smart kinetic effectors and directed energy systems like high-power microwaves to deliver layered threat defense.
![The guided missile destroyer USS O'Kane(DDG 77) fires a Mk54 recoverable exercise torpedo out of the Surface Vessel Torpedo Tube during Combat Systems Ship Qualifications and Trials (U.S. Navy Photo by Yeoman 3rd Class Armand Garcia/Released)](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/rmd/what-we-do/naval-warfare/effectors/mk54/2021-08/images/mk-54-hero.jpg?rev=3817583126c3469681cb284c171d70db)
![Radar on the top of a container being towed by a flatbed truck](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/what-we-do/advanced-technology/counter-uas/effectors/phaser-high-power-microwave-system/2020-02/images/phaser_high_powered_hero_lg_0.jpg?rev=bb785562cef64bd7965211f462a369ab)
High-Power Microwave Systems
The future of a modern defense, high-power microwaves have a nearly unlimited magazine and the ability to defeat enemy hypersonic weapons or a swarm of drones with a single electronics-disabling shot.
![A contractor-derived rendering of the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile, or HACM.](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/news/2023/02/07/hacm_concept9highelevation11600_wnote.jpg?rev=d3c7715f414e491cbc3d65833bd4c1f7)
Hypersonics
Hypersonic weapons travel in excess of five times the speed of sound and are highly maneuverable to avoid countermeasures.
![A contractor-derived rendering of the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile, or HACM.](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/what-we-do/hypersonics/2023-03/images/hacm_concept9highelevation21600_wnote.jpg?rev=de725d9922ad4149aacb151c191610b8)
All-Domain Sensors
We bring together next-generation sensors that are smart, flexible and deployable in any environment.
![Orbital network](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/ris/what-we-do/department-22/2022-05/cross-domain_800x450.jpg?rev=f2b05d18e473449e916214c157e53ee5)
Space Sensors
![6th generation fighter rendering](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/ris/what-we-do/department-22/2022-05/6thgenv2_800_450.jpg?rev=84c1df41e2e64bab915cb212137595f2)
Airborne Sensors
![An artist's rendering of undersea sensors.](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/what-we-do/advanced-technology/2023-05/4476968underseaposterpssmallm6v07kpstmt-a-2019009116x9.jpg?rev=f801ba46cdc044b38d906a44040e9b36)
Undersea Sensors
![An artist's rendering of the sea and coastline with radio waves to depict ground and ship-based defense sensors.](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/what-we-do/advanced-technology/images/4538491_adv_tech_hero_1600x900_2.jpg?rev=1a7f5a812f544a1d821913484d1772f9)
Ground and Ship-Based Sensors
Common radar software and hardware product lines enable reuse across multiple radars, significantly reducing engineering costs and development timelines.
![An artist rendition of a plane taking off from a ship, showing radar coverage.](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/what-we-do/sea/airborne-electronic-attack/ngj/2020-02/images/ngj_hero.jpg?rev=264ff6fa1bfc4d0d887431de88f801ec)
Electronic Warfare
Managing the electromagnetic spectrum to increase survivability – allowing our service men and women to return home.
![LTAMDSは最新世代の防空・ミサイル防衛レーダーで、極超音速ミサイルなどの、急増し緊張を高めている脅威に対して卓越した能力を発揮します。](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/lang/ja/capabilities/products/ghosteye/ltamds-017rt1-peo-22-018-e021522-stmta_1600x900.jpg?rev=c0d705a52c0f4c6783b8dec9daa09cc1)
Emerging Technology
From discovery to practical application, Raytheon’s Advanced Technology team is developing the next generation of fundamental and foundational technologies.
![An artist's rendering of a digital battlefield scenario.](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/what-we-do/advanced-technology/images/rtx-digital_transformation_v13a_highres_169_final.jpg?rev=55a726a9b58645dd9c94a01fb46117ba)
Modeling & Simulation
![An artist's rendering of a sensor on an unmanned aircraft.](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/what-we-do/advanced-technology/images/decsup_1214240420_1600x900.jpg?rev=b070d9979e824cfa98a7acf19d305262)
Photonics, Electro-Optics & Infrared
![A gallium nitride semiconductor.](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/what-we-do/advanced-technology/2023-05/gan-wafter-in-raytheon-foundry-15_0075_129_1600x780.jpg?rev=80f9c6375a2d46bbb41c4f19f16ab428)
Microelectronics
Modern sensors are built around a small number of components, the most critical of these are advanced microelectronics.
News
![Nick Giovannucci and Kealey Maddalena, engineers at Raytheon Missiles & Defense in Tucson, Arizona, rehearse the launch of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, developed with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman.](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/rmd/news/2022/03/15/what-it-is-like-to-design-and-launch-a-hypersonic-missile/images/hawc-7_1600x900.jpg?rev=1f7d1b100b254ddcb080c1ac741e8b75)
What it’s like to design and launch a hypersonic missile
![Tycho crater](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/ris/news/2022/12/tycho_1600x900.jpg?rev=ce4678974ad1479195e7455bdc41ab07)
The moon is a sight for scientific eyes
![The Flexible Distributed Array Radar, or FlexDAR, combines digital beam forming, network coordination and precise time synchronization to perform multiple missions—including surveillance, communications and electronic warfare—at the same time, with a single array.](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/what-we-do/advanced-technology/images/4509850_rmd_flexdar_stills__0007_04-nologo_800x450.jpg?rev=f2501e8db74c42d3bbee692fb283a53c)