Last Updated: 10/27/2011*

C4ISR Journal has named two Raytheon capabilities, the Cross-Domain Enterprise All-source User Repository (CENTAUR) and Airborne Cueing and Exploitation System Hyperspectral (ACES HY), in its Big 25 programs and innovations within the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) community.

CENTAUR serves as a cross-domain information-sharing system enabling the United States and its NATO coalition partners to attain ISR information in an easily discoverable and retrievable way. The deployed system reduces the time it takes to get actionable intelligence to and from the U.S. and its coalition warfighters to make joint life-saving decisions.

Raytheon demonstrated CENTAUR with U.S. Joint Forces Command at Empire Challenge 2011 in Fort Huachuca, Ariz. A CENTAUR system is currently being used at Fort Gordon, Ga., and other systems are being tested at various locations both domestically and internationally.

Raytheon was also awarded an indefinite delivery-indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract earlier this year with a ceiling of $68 million by the U.S. Air Force Distributed Common Ground System Multi-Service Execution Team Office for CENTAUR. The first order was awarded for delivery to U.S. Central Command. Under the IDIQ, Raytheon will procure, deliver, install and sustain CENTAUR components throughout a two-year contract ordering period with an additional year for sustainment activities.

In late 2010, the U.S. Air Force selected Raytheon to produce the first airborne tactical hyperspectral sensor system. ACES HY is an infrared sensor system developed to identify targets based on their spectral characteristics. As the prime systems integrator for ACES HY, Raytheon leads team members L3 Integrated Optical Systems and Space Computer Corporation in the effort. The system is currently in production and scheduled for delivery in early 2012.

Both capabilities will be recognized during the 11th annual “C4ISR Journal Conference & Big 25 Awards,” on Oct. 27-28 in Washington, D.C.

Read the C4ISR Journal article.