2007 Issue 2 - Raytheon

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People ET&MA Professionals Exemplify Raytheon’s CFM Strategy CHAIN High Assurance APIs for MS Office and Web Publishing Environments Team Russell A. Hendrickson, Robert C. Moehl, Thomas Farley, Frank L. Prioleau Jr., Tyson D. Vooge This team was honored for developing the Compartmented High Assurance Information Network (CHAIN), resulting in Raytheon winning the $56 million DARPA Classified IT services contract. CHAIN provides breakthrough sharing abilities to users operating at high classification levels across compartments. The team integrated security services with Microsoft applications and created a life-cycle Web-publishing environment offering commercial IT quality collaboration services with Protection Level 3+ accreditation. The unprecedented combination of strong security, familiar office capabilities and maintainability was the key to winning the $56 million DARPA contract. “Working on IRADS can be both exhilarating, as new concepts are explored, and challenging, since a diverse team with different skills must come together to solve customer challenges,” said team member Robert Moehl. CHAIN was selected as the worldwide collaboration environment for Coalition Warfighter Interoperability Demonstration 2007, a forum for new and emerging technologies to be used and evaluated by operators from all armed services, DoD agencies and coalition members. CHAIN establishes Raytheon as a provider of leadingedge information assurance solutions validated to meet compartmented and multilevel secure requirements. “For the CHAIN team, our most critical challenges were the availability of skilled subject matter experts and training on new technologies and products,” said Moehl. “The CHAIN IRAD team has and continues to be in high demand on programs like DARPA, Firewalker and Starburst, as well as supporting proposal efforts.” 32 2007 ISSUE 2 RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGY TODAY Driving Innovation Into Everything We Do Highlighted below are three of the 15 teams who captured awards at Raytheon’s Excellence in Engineering and Technology Awards, held April 11, 2007. The award is Raytheon’s highest honor for technical achievement that contributes to the company’s success and continued growth. Each winning team is responsible for keeping the company on the leading edge of innovation so we can meet our customers’ evolving needs. Moreover, their outstanding performance challenges the entire company to meet and exceed the new standard of excellence they have set. Project JFires Team Kenneth L. Pratte, Philip M. Green, Christopher Dow, Dennis E. Woods, F. Allen Bouressa The Project JFires team received their award for designing a prototype Department of Defense (DoD) Protection Level 3 system capable of interconnecting multiservice networks and demonstrating joint interoperable functionality. The Project JFires team successfully partnered with Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems Security, the Defense Security Service and local Raytheon site security offices to achieve Raytheon’s goal: establishing an infrastructure to prototype, evaluate and demonstrate joint interoperable functionality to improve and extend warfighter capability. “With JFires, everything is new, often never done before, and a big challenge — but with a potential huge payoff for our customers and warfighters,” said Robert Wilcox, JFires Integration of Labs (IOL) IPT lead. “That’s what it’s all about. We have to consistently run at faster than Ramp Speed; we call it JFires Speed, and we love it! As is often said in the Navy, a ship underway makes a wake. And believe me, JFires knows how to make a wake!” Global Information Grid (GIG) Appliance Demonstrator Team Michael J. Townsend, Danion T. Dugger, Mark A. Phelps, Brian L. Bultemeier, Charles S. Kuehl These five dedicated engineers were acknowledged for developing the Global Information Grid (GIG) Appliance Demonstrator — a secure, COTSbased publish-and-subscribe mechanism that enhances situational awareness and supports the migration of legacy avionics systems to Service- Oriented Architecture, Internet Protocol networks. The GIG Appliance Demonstrator serves as a presentation layer for warfighters to connect to the GIG to share or receive sensor information needed to enhance situational awareness. The GIG Appliance Demonstrator team designed it to support legacy avionics system migration to Service-Oriented Architecture, Internet Protocol networks, and to provide systems that upgrade easily, adapt to evolving commercial technology and resist short-term obsolescence. The COTS-based GIG Appliance can affordably morph into any required form factor, level of enduser network capability, and command/control human interface under a multilayer of security. “The greatest obstacle our team faced in developing our COTS demonstrator for the AF Airborne CRADA Capstone Flight Test event,” said Charles Kuehl, the team’s principal systems architect and systems engineer, “was establishing our system’s networking value to airborne RF communications, using the OSD NetCentric Checklist guidance to support our SOA telecommunications development approach. “After an exhaustive team-coordinated approach in defining what OSD’s GIG publishing and consuming really encompasses, a ‘Customer Vision of GIG Deployment’ conops document was developed for IPDS Gate 6 to provide our team some NetCentric Checklist (Data & Transport Tenets) requirements clarity on how the customer is envisioning GIG ‘Edge’ Interoperability for the warfighter.”
Getting to Know Your Raytheon Certified Architects The Raytheon Certified Architect Program (RCAP) is the culmination of Raytheon’s systems architecting learning curriculum. RCAP focuses on providing our customers with the expertise needed to support their long-term transformational goals. In recognition of their certification, we continue to highlight our Raytheon certified architects. Edwin Lee Senior Principal Engineer, Space and Airborne Systems – Years with Raytheon: 20 Q: Can you tell us about your current program? A: My current program is called the Raytheon Reference Architecture Enterprise Campaign, Hard Real-Time. It just started this year. Before that, I worked on the Raytheon St. George Enterprise Campaign for two years. Enterprise campaigns are corporate-level programs with participation from all Raytheon businesses. Q: In terms of the three pillars of Customer Focused Marketing (CFM) — Performance, Relationships and Solutions — what’s been lacking in your current role, and what has worked well? A: In my current role as IPT lead, my customers include stakeholders in the Corporate and Local Technology, Business Development, and Engineering areas. Trying to satisfy the needs of all these areas and promoting the use of our product (Reference Architecture) has been challenging due to its exploratory and “disruptive” nature. On the other hand, by using a combination of remote collaboration (using tools such as teleconference and Sametime), face-to-face meetings, workshops and awareness seminars, we are producing good results. Q: How would you improve Raytheon’s Performance, Relationships and Solutions? A: Get out of the comfort zone, think out of the box, reach out to peers and other experts across the company, and participate in community activities inside and outside of the company. Most of all, share, collaborate and leverage with each other to create a “force multiplier.” Q: How do you see CFM affecting the future? A: CFM will still be a key measure of customer satisfaction. In fact, I believe it will become more critical in the future because the market- place will be open to more competition, and customer expectations will continue to increase in terms of fast turnaround time and costeffective solutions. Q: What about your job keeps you up at night? A: There are indeed moments when my job keeps me up at night. Luckily, they’re mostly good moments when I found a solution to a problem or have a creative idea for expressing a concept. I like those moments! However, there are also moments when I feel like pulling my hair out searching for an answer. Q: How would you describe your job parameters? A: My job has no requirements in the traditional sense. Only very high level guidelines and objectives are given. That leaves lots of room to explore, investigate and create, along with opportunities for problem solving. I think “degree of challenge” could be a good job parameter; the other one may be “opportunity of innovation.” Mike Stemig Program Chief Engineer, Space and Airborne Systems – Years with Raytheon: 23 Q: How long have you been working with your current program? A: My current program is Silverthorn, and I’ve been working on it from the proposal stage in January 2005 through the present time. Our Period of Performance lasts through 2012, so it’s a fairly long program. Since early this year, I’ve taken on the role of being a program chief engineer. It’s a relatively new role within SAS, and I’m excited about being on the frontier, both technically and organizationally. Q: Why do you think you have excelled in your career? A: Early in my career, I benefited from identifying role models for myself, people who were at higher levels of the business and who exhibited traits I admired. They would be my measuring sticks, and although I may never fully measure up to the gold standard, I knew that every step I made toward it would help me. On the technology side, the two people I tried to measure myself against were Joel Mellema and Mike Wong. Both gentlemen are awesome technically, wonderful communicators, and always enable a positive teaming experience by treating everyone at all levels of the organization with respect. Organizationally, my measuring sticks are Debbie Ybarra and Steve Jackson. From them, I’ve learned enterprise perspective, collaborative leadership, and organizational excellence. All four have the ability to see the forest … and the trees. Q: What advice would you offer to enhance Performance, Relationships and Solutions? A: Find ways to fill the white space — and architects are ideally suited to filling the white space. As engineers, people want to draw a clean boundary around their components and make sure they have everything covered. Everyone’s components may work great on their own, but when it comes together into a higher level product or system, it may not work at all. The architect’s role is to make sure that doesn’t happen. Organizationally, the same thing can happen, and someone has to be willing to fill the white space. You can learn a lot by filling the white space, and the teams you participate in or lead will be more successful because of that. Q: What about your job excites you? What concerns you? A: Interestingly enough, the same things both excite me and concern me. System Integrity Programs has experienced amazing growth over the last four years. We’re a world-class leader in a key domain that’s in high demand. So every day, there’s interesting work waiting for me when I walk through the door. Every night, when I go home, I’m afraid there will be even more interesting work the next day. I’m usually right! RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGY TODAY 2007 ISSUE 2 33
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