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PARIS, (June 20, 2001) - Raytheon Company announced several developments
at the Paris Air Show in its HISAR™ commercial turnkey airborne
surveillance and reconnaissance systems - four years after the product's
launch at the 1997 Paris Air Show.
HISAR is Raytheon's offering to the international airborne surveillance
and reconnaissance market in the $10 million to $30 million per system
class. It integrates a broad range of off-the-shelf subsystems to structure
a solution tailored to meet customers' needs. This includes the platform,
sensors, and ground station as well as a complete support package.
Developments announced during this year's Paris Air Show are:
- The introduction of HISARTM 2K, a new family of sensors with improved
performance in range and resolution and increased sensor integration,
while offering customers more choices in electro-optical/infrared
sensor performance.
- HISAR now offers the capability to accomplish surveillance and reconnaissance
from a tethered balloon or aerostat. Offering both high time on station
and low operating costs, aerostats are an attractive platform for
air defense, air-to-surface, and air-to-ground surveillance missions
that are well-suited to the HISAR system. Currently, HISAR's airborne
sensor suite solutions can be installed on a variety of fixed wing
platforms - from small executive class aircraft to large cargo transport
planes. HISAR has already been installed on the Beech 1900, King Air
200, de Havilland-7 and -8 and Egrett aircraft. The installation and
integration flexibility of the HISAR sensor suites can be extended
to other types of platforms, including the aerostat.
- Recognizing that applying synthetic aperture radar/ground moving
target indicator (SAR/GMTI) technology to surveillance and reconnaissance
missions is an emerging market, Raytheon has established the HISAR™
Institute as a method to help educate international customers, partners,
and suppliers on the features and benefits of SAR/GMTI technology.
"Our customers can be confident in the future of the HISAR product
line," said HISAR capture team lead Justin Monger. "With our
established and growing customer base and our ability to leverage other
Raytheon reconnaissance programs like the Global Hawk, ASTOR, U-2, and
ARL-M programs, we will continue to provide our customers with the most
up-to-date commercial turnkey reconnaissance and surveillance available."
Raytheon demonstrated the maturity of the HISAR program in 2000 by delivering
eight radar-based systems in less than 12 months. With more than 20
sales worldwide since the program began, the HISAR team plans to continue
the momentum by expanding its customer base into Latin America next
year.
The HISAR program is managed by the Surveillance & Reconnaissance
Systems business unit of Raytheon Electronic Systems, headquartered
in El Segundo, Calif.
With headquarters in Lexington, Mass., Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)
is a global technology leader in defense, government and commercial
electronics, and business and special mission aircraft.
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