Raytheon has announced the completion of technical testing during the US Army’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) sense-off at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, US.
The two-week missile defence demonstration has showcased Raytheon’s readiness to deliver mission-critical LTAMDS capability to the US Army.
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Raytheon integrated air and missile defence vice-president Tom Laliberty said: “Raytheon’s clean-sheet approach and decades-long investments in gallium nitride technology allowed us to demonstrate and deliver a mature solution that will meet the army’s initial operational capability.”
In addition to major investments by Raytheon, strategic industrial partners Crane Aerospace & Electronics, IERUS Technologies, Cummings Aerospace, Kord, Mercury Systems and nLogic played a key role in achieving the army’s accelerated sense-off timetable.
Raytheon’s LTAMDS programme director Doug Burgess said: “Our industrial partners contribute the unique technology and capabilities necessary to ensure our LTAMDS solution supports service members.”
During the sense-off, Raytheon’s LTAMDS solution has demonstrated key mission capabilities to service members, validated the maturity of the LTAMDS design, acquired and tracked a variety of threat-representative targets.
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By GlobalDataIn addition, it has demonstrated advanced capabilities showcasing Raytheon’s solution and showcased the ease of maintenance and sustainment to soldiers.
Raytheon said that it will develop and deliver a final proposal addressing the army’s key evaluation criteria during the next phase of the competition.
Raytheon is a technology and innovation company that specialises in defence, civil government and cybersecurity solutions.
The company provides command, control, communications, computers, cyber and intelligence (C5I) products and services, modern electronics, mission systems integration, sensing, effects and mission support for customers in more than 80 countries.
With a history of innovation spanning 97 years, Raytheon recorded sales of $27bn during 2018 and has 67,000 employees.
