Raytheon Awarded a Follow-On Global Hawk Ground Segments Contract

Posted on: Jan. 30th, 2006 || Source: biz.yahoo.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

Raytheon Awarded a Follow-On Global Hawk Ground Segments Contract

FALLS CHURCH, Va., Jan. 30, 2006 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN - News) has been awarded a follow-on contract to produce ground segments for Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk program, which will support the U.S. Air Force Global Hawk unmanned aerial system. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle provides the U.S. Air Force and military field commanders near-real-time, high-resolution, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery.

Raytheon's Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS) business will build an additional lot of Global Hawk ground segments consisting of the launch and recovery element (LRE), the mission control element (MCE) and associated ground communication equipment. The MCE is responsible for key mission plan elements and is designed to command and control up to three air vehicles simultaneously. The LRE prepares, launches, and recovers the Global Hawk. It verifies the health and status of the various subsystems aboard the vehicle, receives the mission plan from the MCE, and loads it into the Global Hawk.

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