TEWKSBURY, Mass., May 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Navy
and Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) have completed the AN/SPY-6(V) Air
and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) critical design review. The
outcome confirms Raytheon's design and technologies as mature,
producible and low risk; on track to meet all radar performance
requirements, on schedule and within cost.
The CDR assessed all technical aspects of the program, from
hardware specifications, software development, risk mitigation and
producibility analysis, to program management, test and evaluation
schedules, and cost assessments. The review concluded with Navy
stakeholders impressed with the radar's progress to date and
confident in the program's path forward to on-time delivery.
"This successful milestone is the culmination of our team's
unwavering focus on continuous technology maturity, risk mitigation
and cost reduction throughout all phases of development," said
Raytheon's Kevin Peppe, vice
president of Integrated Defense Systems' Seapower Capability
Systems business area. "With customer validation in hand, we will
now advance production, driving toward the ultimate – and timely –
delivery of this highly capable and much-needed integrated air and
missile defense radar capability to the DDG 51 Flight III
destroyer."
The Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the
program continues and is now more than 40 percent complete.
Raytheon attributes its exemplary performance to the implementation
of an Agile development and management methodology for AMDR. This
approach supports the ongoing hardware and software design
verification, technology maturity, producibility, and
risk-reduction imperatives – yielding benefits across all program
elements in productivity, quality and affordability.
All aspects of the AMDR EMD phase are progressing according to
plan, from software development to pilot array testing. The first
Engineering Development Model production-representative Radar
Modular Assembly (RMA) is currently undergoing testing in the
risk-reduction pilot array at the company's Near Field Range in
Sudbury, Mass.
The team has also delivered the first external combat system
interface definition language increment to the Combat System
Integration Working Group – the Government-industry team comprised
of Raytheon, Navy and Lockheed Martin experts that is focused on
AMDR integration with the DDG 51 Flight III's AEGIS combat
system.
About SPY-6(V) AMDR
SPY-6(V) is the
21st-century integrated air and ballistic missile
defense radar for the U.S. Navy, filling a critical capability gap
for the surface fleet. It is the first truly scalable radar, built
with radar building blocks (Radar Modular Assemblies) that can be
grouped to form any size radar aperture, either smaller or larger
than currently fielded radars. All cooling, power, command logic
and software are scalable. This scalability could allow for new
instantiations, such as back-fit on existing DDG 51 destroyers and
installation on aircraft carriers, amphibious warfare ships,
frigates, or the Littoral Combat Ship and DDG 1000 classes, without
significant radar development costs.
Leveraging Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology to optimize power in
a smaller size and using less space, power and cooling than older
technology would require for the same performance, AMDR is a key
enabler for the capability and performance enhancements of the new
DDG 51 Flight III ship. SPY-6(V) for DDG 51 Flight III is designed
with high operational availability and reliability to minimize
overall ownership cost.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of
$23 billion and 61,000 employees
worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in
defense, security and civil markets throughout the world. With a
history of innovation spanning 93 years, Raytheon provides
state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other
capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command,
control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as cyber
security and a broad range of mission support services. Raytheon is
headquartered in Waltham, Mass.
Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more
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