USAF gives mandate to Raytheon to modernise missile warning architecture
Raytheon has been awarded by the US Air Force (USAF) a five-yea $197 million contract to support the department with the update of its missile-warning architecture.
As part of this, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS) has developed an open framework to provide advanced processing capabilities to the USAF.
Work will involve providing a new system dedicated to collect and integrate data from various sensors.
The capability of the framework encompasses the processing of overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) satellite data from the USAF’s constellations, as well as civil and environmental sensors.
Raytheon IIS president Dave Wajsgras said: “The US Government’s global satellite network produces a constant flood of data, petabytes and petabytes of it every day.
“The airforce wants to open that network up so they can use as much of that data as possible. That’s a huge transformation not just for the service, but for the whole government.”
