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Valiant Shield Exercise Included Provision of Targeting Information on Simulated Targets by Raytheon’s Multi-Program Testbed, Company Says

Valiant Shield Exercise Included Provision of Targeting Information on Simulated Targets by Raytheon’s Multi-Program Testbed, Company Says
An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 356th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, 354th Air Expeditionary Wing, takes off on June 12 from Palau International Airport in support of Valiant Shield exercise (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Raytheon Technologies' [RTX] Multi-Program Testbed (RMT)--a converted 727--collected data on a simulated sea-based threat and provided targeting solutions to other assets in the western Pacific this month during the Pentagon's ninth Valiant Shield exercise, as the company looks forward to incorporating such features as part of the DoD Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) effort, Raytheon said. A biennial, U.S. only, field-training exercise, Valiant Shield began in 2006 and focuses on joint training. The RMT by the Raytheon Intelligence…

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