Raytheon to Develop Advanced Signal Processing Tech for Future RF Systems

Raytheon has been awarded a contract worth $18.8 million by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to work on surveillance processing over the Extreme Radio Frequency Bandwidths.

“Raytheon Co., Tewksbury, Massachusetts, has been awarded the option to extend terms of the contract in the amount of $18,860,822 for previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for surveillance processing over the Extreme Radio Frequency (RF) Bandwidths effort,” the U.S. Department of Defense said in a statement today

The contract provides for the development of advanced signal processing technologies and techniques for future RF systems. These systems will create an asymmetric advantage for tactical operations in anti-access/area-denial environments by enhancing the operating bandwidth of real-time signal detection and recognition capabilities.

Work will be performed in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, and is expected to be completed by February 14, 2024.

Extremely high frequency (EHF) is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) designation for the band of radio frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum from 30 to 300 gigahertz (GHz). These waves are also called Millimeter waves. Uses of the millimeter wave bands include point-to-point communications, inter-satellite links, and point-to-multipoint communications.