Raytheon’s Advanced Technology team incubates capabilities that fuel the future of defense. Together with leading research and development organizations, defense agencies, peers and partners, we are creating ways to advance how tomorrow’s battles are fought and won. With a focus on cutting-edge components to full-scale solutions, early ideation to production readiness, seabed to space, we shape the systems and solutions that advance defense.
Advanced Weapons
We combine the power of smart kinetic effectors and directed energy systems like high-power microwaves to deliver layered threat defense.
Torpedoes
Torpedoes are the world’s primary undersea weapon. New capabilities in U.S. heavyweight, lightweight and compact torpedo classes carry out critical missions to combat surface and submerged threats, old and new.
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High-Power Microwave Systems
The future of a modern defense, high-power microwaves have a nearly unlimited magazine and the ability to defeat enemy hypersonic weapons or a swarm of drones with a single electronics-disabling shot.
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Hypersonics
Hypersonic weapons travel in excess of five times the speed of sound and are highly maneuverable to avoid countermeasures.
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Composable Weapons
Raytheon’s Advanced Technology business is using scalable, foundational weapon components to speed the development time for fielding new capabilities.
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We bring together next-generation sensors that are smart, flexible and deployable in any environment.
Space Sensors
Developing a next-generation of affordable all-modality sensors for persistence coverage – enabling new cross-domain, beyond line-of-sight architectures.
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Airborne Sensors
Multi-function active and passive sensors enabling surveillance and tactical support for all air-to-air, air-to-ground, and air-to-surface missions.
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Undersea Sensors
Next-generation sensors support a variety of ocean-spanning platforms in multiple mission areas including anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface ship warfare, mine warfare and sub and seabed warfare.
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Ground and Ship-Based Sensors
Common radar software and hardware product lines enable reuse across multiple radars, significantly reducing engineering costs and development timelines.
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Electronic Warfare
Managing the electromagnetic spectrum to increase survivability – allowing our service men and women to return home.
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Infographic
Raytheon’s Advanced Technology business is creating new, software-defined apertures using the full potential of the radio frequency spectrum to handle multiple missions in any domain
Download PDFEmerging Technology
From discovery to practical application, Raytheon’s Advanced Technology team is developing the next generation of fundamental and foundational technologies.
Modeling & Simulation
The Rapid Campaign Analysis and Demonstration Environment, or RCADE, is a campaign-level modeling and simulation capability that expands the scope and scale of defense analysis, helping leading defense minds uncover solutions that drive mission success.
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Photonics, Electro-Optics & Infrared
New components, materials and system developments in the use of photons for sensing the world around us and advancing how we process data, we lead the way in working at the speed of light.
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Microelectronics
Modern sensors are built around a small number of components, the most critical of these are advanced microelectronics.
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News
RTX's Raytheon receives follow-on contract from U.S. Army for advanced defense analysis solution
Partnership-based capability bridges the gap between data and decision-making
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RTX's Raytheon awarded U.S. Army contract for wireless power beaming technology
Technology will extend operational reach and counter autonomous systems
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RTX to develop ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors for DARPA
New class of materials offer improved conductivity and thermal management properties
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RTX's Raytheon selected to streamline production of SPY-6 Transmit/Receive modules
Manufacturing advancements expected to reduce production costs
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RTX's Raytheon, Northrop Grumman successfully test solid rocket motor
Test validates design maturity and performance
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RTX's Raytheon demonstrates SM-6 integration with LTAMDS and IBCS
Army and Navy programs combine to defeat complex threat
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“It is not technology for technology’s sake. It’s technology to get capability to the field, and I think we’re all very passionate about that.”
Colin Whelan
Raytheon Advanced Technology business president
“It became obvious that if we tried to build the (SPY-6) radar out of the premier semiconductor at the time, which was gallium arsenide, it was going to be large and expensive because you would have to put together many of these little power amplifier chips to get to the power level you wanted.”
Steve Bernstein
Raytheon Advanced Technology senior engineering fellow
“It created a category of weapons capability that didn’t exist before.”
Kevin Bredehoft
Raytheon Advanced Technology HAWC program manager
“This is going to be eye-watering, transformational performance for the country and our international partners. Just to be a part of it and say, ‘I was there at the beginning, and I helped drive this,’.. I can’t ask for anything more.”
Steve Labitt
Raytheon LTAMDS technical director