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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United Technologies is pursuing an ongoing $30,000,000,000 purchase of Rockwell Collins.
The companies awarded 2018-09-27 contracts to develop hypersonic weapon system concepts are BAE Systems, Boeing, General Atomics, L3 Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Draper Laboratories.
The nine firms awarded $1,000,000 study contracts for Space Sensor Layer concept designs are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, Maxar Technologies, Draper Laboratories, Leidos, Millennium Space, and Boeing.
Raytheon's Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance business established a capability center to focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise.
Raytheon aims to integrate its artificial intelligence capability center into the core functions of its business.
The selected Raytheon and Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace teams are tasked to develop detailed designs and compete their solutions for potential use on the next-generation OPIR Block 0 GEO satellites.
Lockheed Martin selected Raytheon and a Northrop Grumman/Ball Aerospace team to compete for the mission payloads of the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Block 0 missile warning satellites.
Raytheon Missile Systems has built up its small satellite business over the past five to seven years.
DARPA ended the SeeMe program in 2015 and agreed to help Raytheon finish production of the first SeeMe satellite and to pay for its launch.
The Falcon 9 launch carrying SeeMe will also include two other Raytheon-built small satellites made for the Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space office, now renamed the Space Rapid Capabilities Office.
Raytheon won a DARPA contract in 2013 to design and produce SeeMe satellites.
Raytheon plans to fuse HawkEye 360’s geospatial information with other relevant data sources to augment intelligence provided to U.S. and international customers.
Raytheon’s OCX contract will be up for an extension when OCX Block 1 is completed in June 2021, at which point there will be an option to sustain the system after delivery.