Raytheon Awarded First Phase of Army's Integrated Battle Command System

Released on Monday, October 06, 2008

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 6, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has won the first stage of a competitive, multi-phase U.S. Army award for the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS).

IBCS is a U.S. Army development program with a modular, open architecture, "system of systems" construct allowing air and missile defense warfighters to use any sensor and any shooter within an integrated fire control network.

The Raytheon-led team was formed using OpenAIR(TM), Raytheon's open business model which uses the best of large and small business and academia to provide the best value solution. The team includes industry partners General Dynamics, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Davidson Technologies, IBM, Carlson Technologies, as well as academic partners, and is scaled for expansion.

Air and missile defense systems included in the IBCS program architecture are weapon and sensor systems already developed/produced by Raytheon, including: the Patriot air and missile defense system, JLENS (Joint Land-Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System), SLAMRAAM (Surface-Launched Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Missile), the Sentinel Radar, and the THAAD (Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense) radar.

A significant contributor to Raytheon Team IBCS' design is the company's state-of-the-art simulation and demonstration environment known as JFires (Joint Force Interoperability and Requirements Evaluations SupraCenter) which helps develop, test, and evaluate joint warfighter capabilities in a highly cost-effective manner.

"Our open-architecture, command-and-control design for IBCS meets the warfighting needs of the air and missile defense soldier," said Dan Kirby, Raytheon's director and program leader for system of systems who led Team IBCS. "Our design is scalable and tailored to support the multi-mission warfighting needs of every formation from a large battalion to a platoon."

"What sets us apart from the competition is our intimate knowledge of the various weapon systems within the IBCS architecture," said John Urias, vice president of Force Application Programs for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems.