RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon Technologies, is a major American aerospace and defense conglomerate. While the company has recently shifted its focus from being a prime contractor in the space field, it continues to supply critical payloads, sensors, and components for satellites and space missions. RTX's space-related products and services include satellite components, advanced sensors, missile defense systems, and space domain awareness technologies, with major customers including the U.S. government, NASA, and international allies. Keywords associated with RTX in the space industry include: space components, sensors, missile defense, space domain awareness, and government contracts.
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Raytheon Intelligence & Space is developing one MGUE Inc 2 MSI card for aviation and maritime systems and another MSI card for ground-based systems.
The Space Enterprise Consortium awarded $309,000,000 in contracts in June 2020 to three teams: Raytheon Technologies, General Atomics, and Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates.
Lockheed Martin Space selected Raytheon Intelligence & Space as one of two teams to design a viable sensor payload for Next-Gen OPIR Block 0.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space completed a Critical Design Review of its competitive sensor payload design for the U.S. Space Force’s Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Block 0 geostationary missile warning satellites.
Raytheon was required to remove IBM computer hardware from OCX by April 2022 and replace it with Hewlett Packard Enterprise hardware.
Raytheon was selected by the Air Force to develop the Next Generation GPS Operational Control System (OCX) for GPS III, with an estimated cost of $6,700,000,000.
Raytheon is under contract to complete by 2025 a new upgrade to make the ground control system compatible with GPS 3F satellites.
Raytheon is expected to deliver OCX Block 1 in 2022.
Raytheon is developing a competing payload for the Next-Gen OPIR geosynchronous satellites.
The U.S. Space Force modified Raytheon’s existing $3,700,000,000 OCX contract for an equitable adjustment for COVID-19 impacts, including late government-furnished equipment impacts and excusable delay overrun costs.
Raytheon is expected to deliver Block 1 of OCX in 2022.
The U.S. Space Force on 2021-08-02 modified Raytheon’s existing $3,700,000,000 OCX contract for an equitable adjustment for COVID-19 impacts including late government-furnished equipment impacts and excusable delay overrun costs.
Companies that received NOAA contracts in 2020 included Ball Aerospace, L3Harris Technologies, Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, and York Space Systems.
The Army program office that oversees intelligence and sensors awarded Other Transaction Authority agreements to Raytheon and Palantir, each worth $8.5 million, to design ground station prototypes over 12 months.
On 2021-06-28, Raytheon is teaming with seven aerospace and data analytics companies to develop a ground station for the U.S. Army that can process data from air and space sensors.
Millennium Space Systems and Raytheon are working under cost-sharing contracts awarded by the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium for digital payload designs.
Raytheon Technologies acquired Blue Canyon Technologies in December 2020.
Northrop Grumman held contracts for three more JPSS satellites with instrument contributions from Ball Aerospace, Raytheon, and L3Harris slated to launch between 2022 and 2032.
The Space Enterprise Consortium awarded $309,000,000 in June 2020 to Raytheon Technologies, General Atomics, and Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA) to develop EO/IR Weather System prototypes.
CAES has partnered with Raytheon Intelligence & Space to develop and provide RF signal conversion technology for a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory program.