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PHILIPPINE SEA (Feb. 3, 2024) Three EA-18G Growlers, assigned to the “Rooks” of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 137, fly over the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), Feb. 3, 2024. Theodore Roosevelt, flagship of Carrier Strike Group Nine, is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. An integral part of U.S. Pacific Fleet, U.S. 7th Fleet operates naval forces in the Indo-Pacific and provides the realistic, relevant training necessary to execute the U.S. Navy’s role across the full spectrum of military operations – from combat operations to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. U.S. 7th Fleet works together with our allies and partners to advance freedom of navigation, the rule of law, and other principles that underpin security for the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Aaron Haro Gonzalez)

Raytheon scores engineering and development contract for extended range airborne electronic attack pod

The company won a $192 million award to modify its Next Generation Jammer-Mid-Band pod to Mid-Band Extended.

Oct 2, 2024 By Mark Pomerleau

Army awards big contract for Coyote interceptors amid growing demand for counter-drone weapons

Army leaders want more tools to protect soldiers from adversaries’ unmanned aerial systems, which have become a growing threat on modern battlefields

Sep 27, 2024 By Jon Harper

Missile warning satellite rendering. (Raytheon image)

Space Force mitigating potential capability loss for MEO missile-tracking program after RTX’s exit

Space Systems Command dropped RTX from the Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking — MEO program in May due to cost growth, schedule slips and design challenges.

Sep 18, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

Airmen from the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron munitions flight load an AIM-120D Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile onto an F-15E Strike Eagle during an integrated combat turn training event at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, March 3, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Greg Erwin)

Air Force integrating AMRAAM weapons onto first batch of CCA drones

Raytheon is working with the service and the two vendors competing in the ongoing development-for-production phase of CCA Increment 1 to incorporate the missiles onto the drones.

Sep 10, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

Space Force drops Raytheon from MEO missile-warning satellite effort

The decision was made “because the RTX Epoch 1 development effort was facing significant cost growth from the original agreement baseline, projecting slips to the launch schedule,…

Jun 14, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

B-52 Stratofortress crews from the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota and the 49th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, participated in hypersonic weapon familiarization training at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 27, 2024. Hypersonics is an attribute being pursued for advanced munitions. The Department of Defense is developing hypersonic science and technology to ensure the U.S. can rapidly transition operational hypersonic systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Pedro Tenorio)

Air Force not planning to buy any ARRW hypersonic missiles in fiscal 2025

Meanwhile, the Air Force is requesting $517 million for another weapon known as the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM).

Mar 11, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

KuRFS and Coyote provide the detect and defeat components of the U.S. Army’s counter-UAS solution, called LIDS: the Low, slow, small, unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System. (RTX image)

Army buys 600 additional Coyote counter-drone weapons amid attacks on US troops

The Coyote is a ground-launched, radar-guided interceptor.

Feb 9, 2024 By Jon Harper

Concept art for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM). (Image courtesy of Raytheon Technologies)

Raytheon to receive $407M for ‘enhancements’ to Air Force hypersonic missile

The deal is an addition to the nearly $1 billion deal awarded to Raytheon in 2022 to develop the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM).

Jan 12, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

Artist’s rendering of a hypersomic air-breathing weapon. (Image courtesy of DARPA)

DARPA wraps up air-breathing hypersonic program, plans follow-on for hypersonic cruise missiles

Plans are in the works for a follow-on effort, which could include building and flying more air vehicles to help mature the technology.

Jan 30, 2023 By Jon Harper

Concept art for the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapons Concept that Raytheon and Northrop Grumman have partnered on. (Image courtesy of Northrop Grumman)

Raytheon tapped to develop Air Force’s Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile

Raytheon beat out Lockheed Martin and Boeing for the down-select for the HACM program. The companies had each done preliminary design work before the contract award to…

Sep 22, 2022 By Jon Harper