Multi Mission
Harnessing the full capabilities of the RF spectrum to use a single radar for multiple missions without significant change to the software baseline.
Having a deep technical mastery and constantly innovating has enabled us to deliver radars that can now do so much more than just detect a single type of threat. Our flexibility allows us to excel at both the program inception and systems upgrade levels of the product lifecycle.
Our modern radars can detect multiple threat types, scan sea to sky, and communicate for distributed operations.
Software Defined Apertures
Our Advanced Technology team is designing the future of radars to be:
Digitally Transformed
Delivering greater capabilities with greater efficiency than ever before, ensuring next generation sensors will fuel the future of distributed sensing technologies.
Upgradeable
Ready to accept rapidly cyber-hardened software upgrades to get new capability into sensors at the speed of the mission.
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Raytheon is creating new, software-defined apertures using the full potential of the radio frequency spectrum to handle multiple missions in any domain
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High Frequency Sensing
Our Advanced Technology team is leveraging the unique principles of high frequency to develop new long-range kill chains for the Department of Defense.
Over-the-Horizon Capability
Either with radar-to-radar communications that bounce off the troposphere, or as a high-frequency radar leveraging the ionosphere to sense at extraordinary ranges.
Beyond Conventional Range
Detecting objects hundreds to thousands of miles away and around the curves of Earth.
Flexibility
Bouncing their signal off the ionosphere, then the target, which reflects the energy back to the ionosphere and ultimately to the radar's receiver.
“It is not technology for technology’s sake. It’s technology to get capability to the field, and I think we’re all very passionate about that.”
Colin Whelan
Raytheon Advanced Technology business president
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“It became obvious that if we tried to build the (SPY-6) radar out of the premier semiconductor at the time, which was gallium arsenide, it was going to be large and expensive because you would have to put together many of these little power amplifier chips to get to the power level you wanted.”
Steve Bernstein
Raytheon Advanced Technology senior engineering fellow
“It created a category of weapons capability that didn’t exist before.”
Kevin Bredehoft
Raytheon Advanced Technology HAWC program manager
“This is going to be eye-watering, transformational performance for the country and our international partners. Just to be a part of it and say, ‘I was there at the beginning, and I helped drive this,’.. I can’t ask for anything more.”
Steve Labitt
Raytheon LTAMDS technical director
