Raytheon Awarded Project Hercules Contract for Next Gen BMD Tech

Raytheon Awarded Project Hercules Contract for Next Gen BMD Tech

Raytheon Awarded Project Hercules Contract for Next Gen BMD Tech

by Staff Writers
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Feb 22, 2006
Raytheon has been awarded a follow-on Missile Defense Agency contract valued at $49 million over the five-year period of performance for Project Hercules. "This award acknowledges Raytheon's capability as a systems integrator for advanced technologies and underscores our leadership in developing groundbreaking technologies to support the missile defense mission," said Pete Franklin, vice president of Raytheon IDS Missile Defense.

Under the contract, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) will develop advanced technologies and system-wide architectures to improve the capabilities of the Ballistic Missile Defense System and will prototype these technologies in fielded systems.

Raytheon IDS has been one of the prime contractors for Project Hercules since 2003. The program is a national effort to develop advanced algorithms, or complex mathematical instructions, to improve the performance of ballistic missile defense systems and to address increasingly sophisticated missile threats. IDS provides algorithm development and engineering expertise in threat discrimination and tracking, as well as the architectures to fuse infrared, radar and electro-optical sensor data for robust threat discrimination.