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JLENS System Performance ‘Eye Watering,’ Raytheon Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

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The test performance for Raytheon’s [RTN] Joint Land Attack cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) so far has been “eye watering,” the company’s program manager said and it’s ready to provide combatant commanders with persistent surveillance, precise tracking and fire control quality data. “I believe that we’re ready to deploy this system and get an operational assessment on it,” said Mark Rose, director, JLENS, for Raytheon, in an interview. A JLENS system, called an orbit, consists of two…

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