The U.S. Missile Defense Agency
has awarded Raytheon Company a $350 million sole source contract
to engineer, construct, integrate and test a forward deployable Ballistic
Missile Defense System (BMDS) radar. This award results from President Bush’s
direction to begin fielding initial missile defense capabilities in 2004-2005.
The BMDS radar will be a transportable, X-band, phased array radar with
sufficient sensitivity to detect, track and discriminate threat missiles.
“Raytheon is uniquely capable of providing existing X-band phased array
technology based on Raytheon’s Family of Radars design,” said Ed Franklin,
president of Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. “The BMDS radar is just one
element of a missile defense system that will soon provide our nation, friends
and allies with a defense against the threat of ballistic missile attack.”
Raytheon will leverage existing technology from its open architecture-
based family of radars which includes the Theater High Altitude Area Defense
radar, the Ground Based Radar-Prototype, the Sea Based X-band radar, the SPY3
radar, and the sea based High Power Discrimination radar. The design,
development, manufacturing and integration work on the BMDS radar is one of
IDS’s key competencies. IDS provides the cutting-edge systems integration
solutions that make missile defense a reality today.
Work on the new forward deployable radar will be performed at Raytheon
facilities in Andover, Bedford, Sudbury and Tewksbury, Mass.
Based in Tewksbury, Mass., Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems provides
integrated air and missile defense and naval and maritime warfighting systems,
including modeling and simulation capabilities for the U.S. Missile Defense
Agency, and strong global integrated capabilities for Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, and technology customers.
Raytheon Company, with 2002 sales of $16.8 billion, is an industry leader
in defense, government and commercial electronics, space, information
technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft.
With headquarters in Lexington, Mass., Raytheon employs more than 76,000
people worldwide.
