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INDIANAPOLIS --- Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC), a subsidiary of Raytheon Company, has received two awards totaling $27.7 million from the U.S. Navy to provide services and systems for the V-22 Osprey aircraft. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity. RTSC's Indianapolis facility will continue to provide systems and software engineering services for the V-22 under tasking in the first award. Aircraft avionics acquisition support services are also included. The second award provides for continued development of the V-22 mission planning system, interactive situational-awareness system, desktop environment software, simulation products, and laboratory capability packages. All work will be performed in the Indianapolis facility, which has provided avionics systems and software for the V-22 for more than twenty years. "These awards demonstrate the level of customer satisfaction with the support RTSC has provided the V-22 over the course of the aircraft's history," said John Balaguer, RTSC vice president and general manager of the company's Indianapolis-based business unit. "We have worked closely with the customer since the inception of the V-22 program to provide solutions and support that ensure the aircraft's mission success. Consistently proven products and services and knowledgeable program personnel who repeatedly demonstrate their quick-reaction capability have given the customer the confidence to continually increase our role on the program." RTSC's role began with aircraft avionics acquisition support and software development. The business then took on additional systems and software engineering responsibilities for the software support activity and also began to develop the mission-planning system and the simulation product software for the program. Situational-awareness systems and the creation of desktop environment software are more recent additions to the RTSC tasking. The current awards expand the scope of the support provided for the software support activity, as well as increasing the capability of the facility's V-22 avionics laboratory. |
