News Feature Archive

10/21/2020

Delivering on the promise of graphene

Raytheon Intelligence & Space spearheaded a research project in collaboration with academia to discover the most effective way to detect microwave radiation by using a bolometer. The microwave radiation sensor is 100,000 times more sensitive than existing sensors today.

10/09/2020

A mission computer for the many

Raytheon Intelligence & Space has developed a platform-agnostic mission computer that can be used on any aircraft, fixed or rotary wing. It’s called the Common Open Secure Mission Computer, or COSMC.

10/09/2020

Modernizing Future Vertical Lift

Raytheon Intelligence & Space is developing a suite of multi-function, precision targeting, long-range surveillance, target detection and identification capabilities for the U.S. Army's Future Vertical Lift mission that will enhance its survivability and combat readiness.

10/02/2020

Grant to help close talent gap

Raytheon Technologies awarded the Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering, or ASCTE, in Huntsville, a $4 million grant to help prepare students for cyber and engineering careers in government and industry.

09/28/2020

Future space domain awareness

As space becomes more congested with increasing numbers of satellites and debris, quantum entanglement could more precisely identify and track these objects. Quantum entanglement is observed when two particles, separated by great distances, instantaneously affect one another.

09/24/2020

From photons to forecasts

Nothing has disrupted and improved forecasting more than the advent of highly accurate weather satellites. Satellites have greatly improved our understanding of the planet and weather phenomena, allowing us to look literally inside the eye of the storm.

09/16/2020

FAA to upgrade telecomm infrastructure

Two Raytheon Technologies businesses – Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Collins Aerospace – are teaming to pursue a contract to overhaul the FAA telecommunications infrastructure that will use emerging and more secure technologies.

09/15/2020

Measuring air quality from space

Air quality can be measured from space. Sitting on a perch 500 miles above Earth, an instrument called the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, or VIIRS, actively monitors the air we breathe. (NASA image)

09/15/2020

Soldiers 'shift gears' into new careers

The “Shifting Gears” program at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, was developed through a partnership between Raytheon, the U.S. Army and General Motors. The program trains soldiers who are headed for civilian life to become GM-certified automotive technicians. Since 2014, 487 soldiers have graduated from the program.

09/10/2020

Air traffic control anywhere, anytime

Raytheon Intelligence & Space has launched the Deployable ATC Automation and Communications System, which can be operational in eight hours to launch and recover aircraft for expeditionary military missions, humanitarian relief, civil unrest, acts of terrorism or other situations where air traffic control services are temporarily unavailable.