Date posted: 08/09/2007*

Raytheon technology lead off the Business & Money section of the July 29 edition of The Boston Sunday Globe in the article "Warship 2.0," which details Raytheon’s involvement as system integrator for the Navy’s new DDG-1000, or Zumwalt-class, guided missile destroyer.

At $3 billion apiece, Navy expectations are high for the Zumwalt-class destroyers — to pioneer 21st-century technologies.

The Globe noted several improvements in the Zumwalt class compared to the Navy’s current Arleigh Burke-class destroyers. One notable improvement is the control center, which brings together key functions that were dispersed throughout the ship in the Burke ships. Another technological advancement is a dual-band radar developed by Raytheon to deliver superior search and target tracking to an advanced gun system.

DDG-1000 is the largest of Raytheon’s thousands of military programs, and the company hopes it will grow still. As program systems integrator, Raytheon may be in a position to port Zumwalt’s leading-edge technologies to other new warships, such as cruisers or aircraft carriers, or retrofit ships in today’s fleet.

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