Raytheon Wins $29.3 Million DARPA Contract
The current 38-month phase of the program is a collaboration between DARPA and the Missile Defense Agency. Its objective is to rapidly mature and demonstrate the capabilities of gallium nitride to improve the performance of missile defense radars.
To accelerate the technology development, DARPA will combine the results of Raytheon's DARPA-funded WBGS Phase 2 and the MDA-funded Next Generation Transmit Receive Integrated Microwave Module programs.
Work under this contract will be performed by Raytheon IDS at the Integrated Air Defense Center, Andover, Massachusetts, and the Surveillance and Sensors Center, Sudbury, Massachusetts.
Waltham, Massachusetts-based Raytheon specializes in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. The company provides electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing, effects, and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a range of mission support services.
Raytheon employs 73,000 people worldwide.
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