Technology Today 2007 Issue 1 - Raytheon
Technology Today 2007 Issue 1 - Raytheon
Technology Today 2007 Issue 1 - Raytheon
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Highlighting Two New Major<br />
<strong>Raytheon</strong> HLS Projects<br />
Each day, more than 360,000 vehicles,<br />
5,100 trucks and containers, 2,600<br />
aircraft and 600 vessels cross into the<br />
United States at more than 600 points of<br />
entry. These kinds of numbers add up to<br />
big risk for our nation’s existing border<br />
security systems.<br />
<strong>Raytheon</strong> is working with the Department<br />
of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal<br />
and local agencies on two new major<br />
projects developed to help keep our borders<br />
secure and our citizens safe from harm.<br />
Advanced Spectroscopic Portal<br />
The safety of our nation depends upon the<br />
ability to design and field systems to mitigate<br />
the threat of covert nuclear attacks.<br />
<strong>Raytheon</strong>’s Advanced Spectroscopic Portal<br />
(ASP) is an advanced screening portal system<br />
designed to identify and prevent the illegal<br />
entry of nuclear devices and materials into<br />
the United States. By improving early detection<br />
capabilities at U.S. border checkpoints,<br />
ASP detectors greatly reduce the threat of<br />
radiological dispersal devices, improvised<br />
nuclear devices or smuggled weapons.<br />
ASP is capable of screening trucks, cars,<br />
cargo containers and mail, and is composed<br />
of a series of compatible panels that can<br />
easily be combined into a multitude of<br />
different configurations based on the<br />
specifics of the venue where the search<br />
is being conducted.<br />
Its modular architecture allows the<br />
system to be mounted in several different<br />
configurations and its multiple detector<br />
types ensure high gamma and neutron<br />
sensitivity over a full range of usage<br />
conditions. ASP is designed to minimize<br />
false alarms that would unnecessarily<br />
impede the flow of border traffic and<br />
commerce, and it incorporates advanced<br />
threat-identification algorithms.<br />
As prime contractor to DHS on this<br />
program, <strong>Raytheon</strong> provides program<br />
management, engineering development,<br />
manufacturing and field support for this<br />
next-generation screening portal. <strong>Raytheon</strong><br />
has teamed with Bubble <strong>Technology</strong><br />
Industries (BTI), a company specializing in<br />
nuclear physics and radiation detection<br />
technology, on ASP. The companies will<br />
work together to conduct research and development<br />
for future systems improvements.<br />
“ASP is moving us forward into a deeper<br />
relationship with DHS,” said Mary<br />
Petryszyn, <strong>Raytheon</strong> vice president for Joint<br />
Battlespace Integration. “The feedback<br />
from the customer has been positive. I am<br />
especially pleased that we were able to get<br />
the DHS contract and, within four months,<br />
deliver complete design, construction and<br />
testing. This is new and innovative technology<br />
for <strong>Raytheon</strong>, and it was exciting to see<br />
how many different business units within<br />
the company were able to work together to<br />
make this happen in such a timely manner.”<br />
<strong>Raytheon</strong> is still in testing mode and<br />
expects to complete full rollout in the first<br />
half of <strong>2007</strong>. Then, full rate production is<br />
planned for early summer <strong>2007</strong>, at which<br />
time Petryszyn and her team expects to<br />
deploy ASP at nearly 300 points of entry<br />
into the United States.<br />
Project Athena Multi-Domain Awareness System<br />
Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP)<br />
Project Athena Multi-Domain<br />
Awareness System<br />
Project Athena is a network-centric, multidomain<br />
command, control, communications,<br />
computers, intelligence, surveillance<br />
and reconnaissance (C4ISR) system for highperformance<br />
situational awareness, fusion,<br />
analysis and knowledge management. It<br />
provides seamless coverage across domains<br />
and operational commands, integrates<br />
multiple sensors and ISR data sources, and<br />
supports rapid integration of new types.<br />
Athena is scalable from local to worldwide<br />
applications and its distribution architecture<br />
supports unlimited scalability.<br />
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