Raytheon Technologies (RTX) Intelligence & Space to support Air Force intelligence program under $175M contract streetinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from streetinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, will provide signals intelligence field services for the U.S. Air Force s Distributed Common Ground System, which collects, processes and analyzes intelligence.
RI&S will support seven different intelligence applications the Air Force uses to collect and correlate data under the new program, DCGS-Signals Intelligence Field Support (DSFS). The five-year contract, valued up to $175 million, will combine information from airborne, ground and other systems. Gone are the days of planning daily sustainment operations site-by-site. Now DSFS provides an enterprise support structure for all sustainment operations, optimizing mission coverage with fewer field engineers, said David Appel, vice president, Defense and Civil Solutions for Raytheon Intelligence & Space. We re able to help ensure the highest level of operational availabil
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Air Force employing open architecture approach to DCGS September 26, 2016 One of the common criticisms levied against the current intelligence architecture both within the military and intelligence community is reliance on stovepiped, closed architecture systems. The Air Force is taking steps to address these concerns as it relates to its Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS), the primary intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planning and direction, collection, processing, exploitation, analysis and dissemination system for the Air Force.
In partnership with Air Combat Command and the Air Force Research Laboratory, a battle management team has been working to improve the capabilities for war fighters processing and disseminating the intelligence information from DCGS and make transitions to a more open architecture, the Air Force said in a release.
Slovakia expects to sign deal for Israeli-made air defence radars in late March.
A government-to-government contract for Israel to provide Slovakia with 17 short-, medium- and long-range mobile 3D air defence radars is 99% finalised, according to the Slovak MoD.
The Slovak MoD in January chose the ELM-2084 MMR system from Israel Aerospace Industries subsidiary Elta Systems, ahead of competing offers from other governments.
Slovakia is spending €148.2 million on the radar procurement.
On 11 March, during a visit to Israel (pictured) and following talks with his counterpart Benny Gantz, Slovak Minister of Defence Jaroslav Naď said ‘we expect that the treaty will be signed in Slovakia as soon as this month. For now, the expected date is March 26, 2021’.