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Raytheon Awarded $1.34 Million Contract
Contract to Develop Next Generation Wireless
Communications Systems for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
FALLS CHURCH, Va., Aug 15, 2002 - Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) was
awarded a one-year, $1.34 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to participate
in the initial phase of a program to develop and enhance spectrum utilization techniques for wireless communications.
The program is important to the Department of Defense because it will increase the ability to communicate adaptively in
what is increasingly becoming a crowded and spectrum-limited environment.
"It is a critical issue in wireless communications that spectrum resources need to be more efficiently utilized than they
currently are," said Dr. Bob Berezdivin, chief scientist of Raytheon's Information and Advanced Systems. "Raytheon plans
to develop new and enhanced techniques in Next Generation (XG) wireless communications, thereby enabling the military
to enhance the capabilities to conduct network centric operations that increasingly depend on effective wireless
communications in a wide range of operational environments. Shared spectrum techniques can also be a leap forward for
commercial service providers, where capacities are being limited by spectrum availability."
Through the implementation of this contract, Raytheon plans to develop and later implement software-controlled
techniques and mechanisms to enable highly-efficient spectrum utilization and spectrum sharing between different users and
services, and thus in effect create more capacity to help meet the needs and demands of current and new users.
The focus of the program is to develop appliques that would reside in every communication system and possibly other
transmitters (such as radars sharing the same bands) to control system sense and characterize the RF environment and
transmit and receive parameters.
The DARPA contract will also allow Raytheon to play a key role in the development of XG radio systems, specifically the
radio system controls -- the communications 'brains' of the future. Raytheon has been at the forefront in developing and
prototyping many advanced communications technologies for DARPA and other advanced technology military
organizations in programs such as UltraComm, Advanced Joint C4ISR Node, FCS Communications, WolfPack, Digital
Video Broadcast System, PENTR, and others.
With headquarters in Lexington, Mass., Raytheon Company is a global technology leader in defense, government and
commercial electronics, and business and special mission aircraft.
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