Technology Today 2007 Issue 1 - Raytheon

Highlighting Two New Major
Raytheon HLS Projects
Each day, more than 360,000 vehicles,
5,100 trucks and containers, 2,600
aircraft and 600 vessels cross into the
United States at more than 600 points of
entry. These kinds of numbers add up to
big risk for our nation’s existing border
security systems.
Raytheon is working with the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal
and local agencies on two new major
projects developed to help keep our borders
secure and our citizens safe from harm.
Advanced Spectroscopic Portal
The safety of our nation depends upon the
ability to design and field systems to mitigate
the threat of covert nuclear attacks.
Raytheon’s Advanced Spectroscopic Portal
(ASP) is an advanced screening portal system
designed to identify and prevent the illegal
entry of nuclear devices and materials into
the United States. By improving early detection
capabilities at U.S. border checkpoints,
ASP detectors greatly reduce the threat of
radiological dispersal devices, improvised
nuclear devices or smuggled weapons.
ASP is capable of screening trucks, cars,
cargo containers and mail, and is composed
of a series of compatible panels that can
easily be combined into a multitude of
different configurations based on the
specifics of the venue where the search
is being conducted.
Its modular architecture allows the
system to be mounted in several different
configurations and its multiple detector
types ensure high gamma and neutron
sensitivity over a full range of usage
conditions. ASP is designed to minimize
false alarms that would unnecessarily
impede the flow of border traffic and
commerce, and it incorporates advanced
threat-identification algorithms.
As prime contractor to DHS on this
program, Raytheon provides program
management, engineering development,
manufacturing and field support for this
next-generation screening portal. Raytheon
has teamed with Bubble Technology
Industries (BTI), a company specializing in
nuclear physics and radiation detection
technology, on ASP. The companies will
work together to conduct research and development
for future systems improvements.
“ASP is moving us forward into a deeper
relationship with DHS,” said Mary
Petryszyn, Raytheon vice president for Joint
Battlespace Integration. “The feedback
from the customer has been positive. I am
especially pleased that we were able to get
the DHS contract and, within four months,
deliver complete design, construction and
testing. This is new and innovative technology
for Raytheon, and it was exciting to see
how many different business units within
the company were able to work together to
make this happen in such a timely manner.”
Raytheon is still in testing mode and
expects to complete full rollout in the first
half of 2007. Then, full rate production is
planned for early summer 2007, at which
time Petryszyn and her team expects to
deploy ASP at nearly 300 points of entry
into the United States.
Project Athena Multi-Domain Awareness System
Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP)
Project Athena Multi-Domain
Awareness System
Project Athena is a network-centric, multidomain
command, control, communications,
computers, intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance (C4ISR) system for highperformance
situational awareness, fusion,
analysis and knowledge management. It
provides seamless coverage across domains
and operational commands, integrates
multiple sensors and ISR data sources, and
supports rapid integration of new types.
Athena is scalable from local to worldwide
applications and its distribution architecture
supports unlimited scalability.
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