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For more than 100 years, Raytheon has brought together the best minds, systems and capabilities to create mission critical solutions that are smarter, faster and better than previously thought possible. To level up to the current defense needs and stay ahead of the threats of tomorrow, we’ve reorganized our business to better serve our customers – because the mission is what matters most. Our restructured business facilitates technology and investment synergies and, serves our customers where and how they need us, and to improve our overall performance.
The new Raytheon business is focused almost exclusively on defense, with eight strategic business units or SBUs. The first five SBUs are lined up directly with their primary customers. Air Power, providing the U.S. Air Force with combat power to dominate airspace and complete direct attack, standoff and strike missions; Naval Power, providing maritime sensors and precision weapon solutions to the U.S. Navy; Strategic Missile Defense, providing the U.S. Missile Defense Agency with advanced technologies as part of a layered defense; and Space Systems delivers end-to-end solutions for the Space Force, the Space Development Agency and the Intelligence Community.
I lead the fifth SBU, Land & Air Defense Systems. This SBU is the U.S. Army’s single point of contact for all things Raytheon. My organization is responsible for providing the U.S. Army and international land forces and air defense customers with advanced systems and products that span precision fires and layered, integrated air and missile defense capabilities.
Tom Laliberty, President of Land & Air Defense Systems, Raytheon.
We then have three SBUs that address the diverse needs of many customers. Advanced Technology is our technology incubator that works science and technology programs with DARPA, OSD and the various laboratories across the military services. Cybersecurity, Intelligence and Services provides the U.S. government with offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. Advanced Products & Solutions focuses on delivering products and solutions primarily to other industry primes and across Raytheon’s programs.
When you put this together…you begin to get a clear picture of the diverse solutions we provide and our renewed focus on our customers.
This new structure enables us to capture operational synergies, streamline internal processes to move faster, and make it easier for our customers to work with us. For example, much of Raytheon’s work with the Air Force will now be performed by a single business unit: Air Power. This is just one example of how we are making it easier to work with us and easier for us to deliver for our customers.
As current and emerging threats continue to proliferate, Integrated Air & Missile Defense (IAMD) remains a crucial need for armed forces worldwide. The new business will give customers access to a portfolio of sensors, command and control systems, and effectors designed to detect and defeat complex threats that are evolving and proliferating across the battlespace.
Land & Air Defense Systems provides “layered defense:” a federation of air defense systems of differing ranges and characteristics, integrated and interoperable to defend against a broad range of threats with optimum efficiency and effectiveness. Adversaries have demonstrated the ability to synchronize complex attacks with a diverse set of threats, including drones, cruise missiles, fixed and rotary wing aircraft, and ballistic missiles – so our customers need a range of advanced capabilities that deter aggression and when called upon, defeat adversarial threats.
Land & Air Defense Systems is the industry leader in complete IAMD system solutions such as the NASAMS and Patriot air and missile defense systems that dozens of countries rely upon. We provide these combat-proven systems and continually improve them with upgrades including the latest sensors, effectors, and novel integration approaches to increase the effectiveness across layered air defense capabilities.
A great example of this is the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS). LTAMDS provides 360-degree threat detection and tracking, with significant range and sensitivity improvements, to counter the most advanced threats. LTAMDS is a networked sensor designed for the lower-tier mission to operate as a sensor in the U.S. Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) and is also available as an upgrade to the Patriot system.
NASAMS provides exceptional air defense capability, used by 13 countries. Ukraine is now using the Patriot system and Switzerland will soon receive its Patriot fire units, representing the 18th and 19th countries to acquire the Patriot air and missile defense system.
Raytheon has developed, and continues to advance, a portfolio of sensors, command and control systems, and effectors designed to detect and defeat complex threats across the battlespace, from short and medium range to lower and upper tier, leveraging decades of expertise in developing all elements of a sophisticated IAMD architecture. From advanced sensors and combat-proven effectors to complete IAMD system solutions, and the Air Defense Operations Center, or ADOC, an integration solution that enables air defense forces to effectively manage sensors, ensuring full coverage of defended assets and effective and efficient use of kinetic and non-kinetic interceptors.
Meeting new and ongoing international demand for air defense systems, like Patriot and NASAMS, will better protect global security now and well into the future. And as threats advance, so do Raytheon’s solutions – refreshing existing capabilities and tackling new challenges with new technologies because the U.S. and its allies need to be able to out-maneuver, out-think and overpower future threats.
That is our mission – to help peace loving countries defend freedoms and deter aggression – and we are building the new Raytheon to do just that.
