Navy asks Raytheon to upgrade radar RF sensors for maritime surveillance of vessel and aircraft targets
ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. Navy reconnaissance experts needed improved radar for surveillance applications, they found their solution from the Raytheon Co. Space and Airborne Systems segment in McKinney, Texas.
Officials of the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, Texas, announced a $23.3 million four-year contract to Raytheon last month for the naval surveillance application upgrade.
The contract calls for Raytheon to improve RF sensors for naval surveillance applications. These improvements potentially will enhance size, weight, power, and cooling; modular open-systems architectures; and resolution against small ocean vessel and aircraft targets.
These improvements also are to enhance the detection of moving targets in synthetic aperture radar, as well as form and extract imagery and other detection and classification features, and demonstrate multi-source autonomous surveillance capabilities, Navy officials say.
This contract is part of an overall Navy technology research program called Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science & Technology.
On this contract Raytheon will do the work in McKinney, Texas, and should be finished by February 2023. For more information contact Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems online at www.raytheon.com, or the Office of Naval Research at www.onr.navy.mil.
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