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Raytheon and Boeing’s Millenium Space Systems to Start Work on MEO Missile Tracking System

Raytheon and Boeing’s Millenium Space Systems to Start Work on MEO Missile Tracking System
U.S. Navy Adm. John Aquilino, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, left, passes the United States Space Forces, Indo-Pacific, command flag to Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, commander of the Space Force element of U.S. Indo-Pacom, during the elemen't activation last Nov. 22 at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii (U.S. Navy Photo)

Raytheon Techologies' [RTX] Intelligence & Space and Boeing's [BA] Millennium Space Systems--both in El Segundo, Calif.--are to begin building the first prototype Missile Track Custody (MTC) Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Overhead Persistent Infrared Sensor (OPIR) payloads under contract awards from U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC). Raytheon said on Jan. 4 that its MTC design "was developed using model-based systems engineering, significantly increasing the speed of development, while reducing cost." "Raytheon Intelligence & Space will also deliver the command…

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