Raytheon wins Air Force contract for ground system to process missile warning satellite data
WASHINGTON —
Raytheon
has won a $197 million U.S. Air Force contract to design a ground system
that will be used to collect and process data from missile warning satellites, the company announced Jan. 28.
The five-year contract
— a two-year base period plus options —
is to develop what the Air Force calls the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution, or FORGE.
Raytheon beat competitors BAE Systems and Booz Allen Hamilton.
FORGE
will replace the Lockheed Martin-developed technology the Air Force currently uses to manage and process data from the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) missile warning satellite constellation.
Raytheon
said FORGE will be an open framework for processing overhead data from both the SBIRS constellation and future satellites known as next-generation persistent infrared (Next Gen OPIR).
The system also has to be able to process data from civil and environmental sensors.
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