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Raytheon Universal Control Systems (UCS)
Revolutionizing Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Operation - An industry first for UAS operations.
UAS are improving how the United States and allies defend our way of life by conducting multiple reconnaissance and surveillance missions, delivering intelligence to those who need it when they need it for directing soldiers to their targets, enemy monitoring, situation assessment and border surveillance.
The success of UAS is largely dependent upon the operators who pilot remotely and are challenged to virtually control the UAS from the ground, often times thousands of miles away. Issues that impact UAS operations include procedural errors, ground station design, limited field of view and human factors. These problems have led to multi-million dollar UAS crashes and failed missions.
Combined with best-of-breed gaming industry technologies with 35-years of UAS knowledge and expertise, Raytheon developed the Universal Control System (UCS). UCS is a revolutionary, next-generation control system designed to address UAS operations issues by enhancing the performance and effectiveness of the operator with innovative features. Raytheon designed UCS around the operator rather than building the system and the air vehicle first. UCS minimizes UAS issues by being operator-centric, and both situation awareness and operational capabilities are enhanced to support mission success.
As federal agencies look to UAS to play integral roles in their operations, it is imperative that improvements are made to increase their effectiveness. Raytheon is leading these efforts by transforming unmanned operations to address human factors issues, and reduce costs and training time.
Recent Articles
July 2008 - Raytheon Apes Games For Drones
July 2008 - Military drones, a la video games (Associated Press)
July 2008 - War Is Halo - Killing real people becomes a video game (Slate)
July 2008 - Raytheon Taps Video Games to Pilot Drones (BusinessWeek)
July 2008 - British troops to be trained on X-box and Playstation games consoles (Telegraph.co.uk)
July 2008 - Raytheon Universal Control System creates a new rule of thumb (The Times of London)
Recent Releases
September 16, 2008 - Raytheon Develops Unmanned Aircraft System Ground Solution to Meet Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Needs
July 15, 2008 - Raytheon's Tactical Control System Is the First Conforming NATO Standard Unmanned Ground Control System
