Raytheon to Pioneer Next-Gen Radar Signal Processing with $42.9M Contract

Raytheon Co., Tewksbury, Massachusetts, is awarded a cost-plus fixed-fee contract for the Radar Advanced Signal Processing effort. The total cumulative value of this contract, including a 36-month base period with two 27-month, one 18-month, and one 36-month option periods, is $42,998,434. This contract provides for the development of enhanced radar signal processing capabilities that take advantage of next generation receivers and exciters and computing accelerators for transition into shipboard radars that operate in increasingly harsh environments against challenging targets. Work will be performed in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, and the base period is expected to be completed in July 2027. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $6,866,250 are obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under long range broad agency announcement (N00014-23-S-B001) entitled “Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science & Technology.” Since proposals are received throughout the year under the long-range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation is unknown. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N0001424C1103).