Raytheon: Leading Global Transportation Innovation and Security
The technology and innovation that propels so many facets of our lives can now move the way we travel forward in quantum leaps, and Raytheon Company is poised to lead the way in that transformation.

Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems (NCS) business provides global transportation management and security solutions in three discrete areas: air traffic management; highway transportation management systems; and border and critical infrastructure protection solutions. NCS is at the forefront of integrating information from each of those areas of expertise to create a seamless and more efficient travel experience for the user and government customers.

In airspace management, Raytheon is the world's leading supplier of Communication, Navigation, and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) solutions. Raytheon has provided more than 350 automated ATM systems to customers around the world -- more than any other provider -- and more all solid-state ATM surveillance radars than all other manufacturers combined.

Raytheon’s Highway Transportation Management Systems (HTMS) provides advanced and reliable electronic toll systems on three continents. To meet the complex needs of the highway industry, HTMS draws upon Raytheon's extensive experience in producing innovative defense and automotive electronics and managing large-scale systems development projects.

NCS’s Homeland Security business area provides solutions for border and perimeter security and surveillance and tracking. Raytheon has proven expertise in emergency management systems, advanced electronics and IT systems that provide 21st-century solutions to tracking, monitoring and identifying potential threats. Raytheon technology can strengthen airspace management and public safety networks, and harness the technology to Detect, Protect against and Respond to threats.

Air Travel Today: Demand Outpaces Capacity
Every day, more than sixty percent of the world’s air traffic passes through U.S. airspace. The current hub-and-spoke air traffic management system is overburdened and can only handle 30,000 flights and 2 million passengers per day.

Growth in air travel is outpacing current and near-term planned capacity; air traffic and security requirements are increasing faster than the government and the private sector can handle.

Today’s system is reactive and aircraft-centric, demanding that U.S. airspace be organized into rigid partitions. Airspace use is dependent upon human decisions on the flight deck and at the control facility, and capacity is limited by technical and operational constraints.

Two-thirds of the nation’s current air traffic management system’s assets are beyond their useful life. The system depends upon a ground-based infrastructure and focuses on a specific origin and destination runway. The system is vulnerable to security attack, and it is limited by non-standard avionics capability.

Now, imagine this current system still in place in ten or twenty years. By then, experts predict that more than one billion passengers will travel by airplane annually and many new smaller aircraft will swarm the skies. This will more than triple the burden on an air traffic control system that hasn’t changed substantially in more than 40 years.

Tomorrow’s Travel: Changes in the Air
The future as envisioned by government and industry addresses transportation challenges from both the technology and user standpoints. Future transportation will be net-enabled and will handle 100,000+ flights and five million passengers daily. It will be proactive and system-centric, allowing airspace to be dynamically organized to meet traffic demand. Humans won’t need to focus on routine operations because most of them will be transferred to satellite-based automated systems. Personnel in six strategically-located facilities would focus on final destinations, such as cities or tows, rather than on runways.

In fact, Raytheon believes the solution is bigger than airspace, and that we need to integrate more than just air traffic control.

To best serve this industry, we need to think about the airspace management process as starting from the minute a passenger picks up the phone or goes online to book a flight to the moment that passenger safely and efficiently reaches his or her destination.

Tomorrow’s Travel: the System
On the service side, each plane has to be cleared, airport personnel have to be checked in, the airports continually swept for security, the navigation service providers up and running, parking facilities monitoring availability, and baggage systems gearing up their operations. All these systems now work as separate silos. The goal is to get them to work together, providing a better travel experience for the user, and a smarter management and safety strategy for the airline industry.

Raytheon’s Road Expertise
Raytheon can help get travelers to their destinations faster. We pioneered open-road tolling and enforcement, and continue to develop and deliver systems that allow transportation officials and authorities to use technology to their advantage while making travelers’ lives easier.

Raytheon’s Infrastructure Experience
Recognizing the inherent importance of safety and security in air travel, Raytheon’s infrastructure automates identification and verification of travelers and service providers. When integrated with ID tag programs such as U.S. VISIT, Raytheon’s identification technology can provide alerts to authorities when certain criteria inform personnel of an approach to sensitive areas. Travelers and transportation service providers who are appropriately equipped can proceed through an airport or other travel facility without having to go through manual screening.

Integrating users with a transportation center’s infrastructure enables airports to predict which passengers will get to the gate in time for departure – making standby passenger boarding possible sooner and expediting departures. Travelers that won’t make it to the gate on time can be diverted to the nearest gate or another airport for an alternate flight.

Raytheon’s infrastructure experience can expedite the most tedious components of air travel with no compromise to safety or security.

Raytheon’s Automation Experience
Raytheon’s automation tools can save users time during the check-in and retrieval process while saving airlines and transportation providers money by getting people and baggage to their correct destination.

For example, once a passenger arrives at the airport, she could drive or walk through a scanner that verified her arrival, her identity, and her ticketed status. She will be allowed to proceed directly to the gate without having to take her computer out of the bag, remove her jacket and shoes and the loose change in her pockets. With automation, these are the kinds of differences Raytheon can make for travelers and transportation centers.

Raytheon has integrated its net-centric operations capability with Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS), Perimeter Intrusion Detection Systems (PIDS), highway management systems (open road tolling and enforcement), and air navigation systems, enabling transportation centers to “pull” data from users as well as to “push” data to travelers and transportation providers. Our software and systems engineers are already working to incorporate global standards and common messaging environments to support secure global transportation.

Protecting You, Protecting the World
Understanding that protecting civil liberties must be balanced with protecting travelers and their personal belongings as well as the surrounding community, Raytheon’s multi-pronged approach to safety and security is already being implemented at some of the nation’s busiest airports.

For example, Raytheon’s Perimeter Intrusion Detection System (PIDS) creates a zone of safety around commercial airports and helps security staff make better decisions on potential threats with greater speed and precision. The system achieves this by detecting, observing, assessing and tracking intrusions to secure areas and by aiding airport security personnel in dispatching the appropriate response to the intrusion.

Raytheon’s Vigilant Eagle system is an affordable, ground-based airport protection system that uses high power microwave technology to protect commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles. Vigilant Eagle creates a dome of protection around an airport that protects all aircraft from such threats. Missiles can be identified and tracked, and a High-power Amplifier-Transmitter (HAT) radiates a beam of directed electromagnetic energy that will disrupt a missile and divert it away from the target aircraft.

Advanced Spectroscopic Portals (ASPs) are panel-like devices that contain detectors used to screen people, cars, trucks and containers for illicit radioactive materials at some of the more than 600 ports of entry into the United States. Raytheon is working in partnership with the U.S. government and other technology companies to test and eventually provide next-generation ASP technology offering improved discrimination between innocent and threatening materials and a reduction in false alarms.

On a much larger security scale, Raytheon’s integrated network assembles, aggregates and warehouses data from coastal surveillance; perimeter intrusion detection systems; aviation augmentation, navigation and radar systems; highway management systems; and baggage screening systems, Our systems trigger alerts when suspicious persons approach sensitive areas; trigger enforcement of fee paying; provide high integrity data for pilots and air traffic controllers; and enable analytical and predictive deductions that support higher density traffic in a more secure environment.

Serving the Industry: Embedded Safety Tools
Raytheon’s traffic management systems are designed to address risk, anticipate potential safety problems, and provide information to prevent accidents before they happen – on the ground and in the air. For example, our system monitors, alerts and reports on critical aspects such as tire pressure, seat belt status, air bags, the vital signs of a pilot, as well as the performance of the aircraft and its engines.

Raytheon has embedded safety throughout its transportation systems -- in the technology and in the processes.

Concern for the Environment
Raytheon recognizes the need to reduce the environmental impact of transportation.

Because Raytheon’s end-to-end transportation management services are integrated to maximize traffic density with the highest fidelity data to/from the cockpit and other vehicles anywhere in the world, our systems also help abate large “noise” footprints and improve local air quality.

Our satellite-based augmentation services provide the kind of data that supports continuous descent approaches so an aircraft burns less fuel and produces less noise. Our highway management systems keep traffic moving smoothly to produce less noise, reduce air pollution and alleviate stress on drivers and passengers. And, our vehicle and ID tag identification systems can provide data critical to the analytical efforts required to further address environmental concerns and cost-effective options for future improvements.

Global Transportation Management and Security Solutions
Raytheon’s global transportation management systems provide a leap forward in air travel transformation that lowers the customer’s risks, speeds modern transportation, increases traffic density levels, improves security and surveillance, enhances safety, and promotes internationally accepted standards – all in the context of adapting and engineering for global harmonization.