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Raytheon Awarded Air Force Contract to Provide Ground System for Missile Warning Architecture

By Vivienne Machi

Tuesday, January 28th, 2020

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Raytheon Awarded Air Force Contract to Provide Ground System for Missile Warning Architecture

The space-based infrared system GEO-5 satellite (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

Raytheon [RTN] has been awarded a $197 million five-year contract to help the Air Force collect and disseminate data from multiple sensors for its missile warning architecture, the company said Jan. 28. A ground system dubbed the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) Mission Data Processing Application Framework will help the service process Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) satellite data from assets including its Space Based Infared System (SBIRS) constellation as well as the future Next-Generation OPIR systems. It will also…

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