Raytheon Achieves Operational Milestone for Distributed Common Ground System Block 10.2 System
GARLAND, Texas , May 23, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has accomplished a major requirement of the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) contract -- completing the end-to-end factory acceptance testing of the DCGS 10.2 system.
During the test, Raytheon conducted a series of on-site evaluations with representatives from the U.S. Air Force exercising the system and evaluating the results. In the next phase, Raytheon will deliver the DCGS 10.2 system to the first of several planned core sites, DGS-2 at Beale Air Force Base, Calif. There Raytheon will complete installation, integration and checkout in preparation for the site acceptance testing.
"The extended factory acceptance test signifies a key milestone to bring the Air Force DCGS sites closer to a network-centric reality, where each site is able to share intelligence information in near real-time," said Anthony DiFurio , director of Multi-Intelligence Systems for Raytheon's Intelligence and Information Systems. "DCGS is a critical part of our nation's security plan, providing our military services with best-of-breed technology."
When fully fielded, DCGS Block 10.2 will be a worldwide distributed, network centric enterprise architecture that enables collaborative intelligence operations and production. Its environment provides for both the physical and electronic distribution of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data analysis and tools.
Raytheon's DCGS 10.2 upgrade will be capable of continuous on-demand intelligence brokering that will enable U.S. and coalition forces to get the information they need to take action and influence events in a significantly shorter amount of time.
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