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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CAES partnered with Raytheon Intelligence & Space to develop and provide RF signal conversion technology for use in a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory program.
The Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Raytheon a $228,000,000 contract on 2021-04-30 to continue development of a ground system for Global Positioning System satellites.
Raytheon is working on OCX upgrades expected to be delivered in 2022 that include hardened cybersecurity, anti-jam capabilities, and new software compatible with the military’s M-code and Europe’s Galileo global navigation system.
The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center awarded a $228,000,000 contract to Raytheon Intelligence and Space for the GPS Next Generation Operational Control System Follow-On (OCX 3F) on 2021-04-30.
Raytheon Intelligence and Space will perform OCX 3F work in Aurora, Colorado, with delivery expected in July 2025.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space builds sensors for low Earth and geostationary orbit, including the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite for NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System.
The NASA contracts awarded to L3Harris and Raytheon are one-year, firm-fixed-price awards worth about $6,000,000 apiece.
Raytheon Technologies acquired small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies in 2020.
If Lockheed Martin acquires Aerojet Rocketdyne, Raytheon Technologies would need to buy about 70 percent of its missiles’ propulsion systems from its primary competitor.
Raytheon Technologies plans to formally oppose Lockheed Martin’s proposed $4,400,000,000 acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne.
The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Raytheon a $197,000,000 five-year contract in January 2020 to design an open-architecture system for FORGE.
An unnamed manufacturing partner that supplies Apollo Fusion produces other components for companies such as Northrop Grumman and Raytheon and can produce tens to hundreds of thruster units per month.
In October 2019 the Missile Defense Agency awarded Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Leidos, and L3Harris each $20,000,000 contracts to design space sensors for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program.
Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, General Dynamics, and BAE Systems collectively won 32 percent of all Department of Defense contract obligations in 2019.
NextGen will partner with Raytheon Intelligence & Space to cybersecure and modernize GSWR for operations.
The Government Accountability Office dismissed Raytheon’s last protest on 2021-12-22.
Raytheon filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office challenging the Tracking Layer Tranche 0 awards.
Raytheon filed two additional protests with the Government Accountability Office related to the Tracking Layer Tranche 0 awards.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space delivered its 3,000th Miniaturized Airborne GPS Receiver (MAGR) 2000-S24 system to the U.S. Air Force.
Raytheon Technologies announced plans in November to purchase Blue Canyon Technologies, a small satellite and spacecraft component manufacturer based in Boulder, Colorado.