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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Raytheon Awarded $8.6 Million Contract for Radar on Japan's U-125A Search and Rescue Aircraft

U-125A (Komatsu)

MCKINNEY, Texas, Nov. 16, 2005 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company was recently awarded an $8.6 million contract to provide the APS-134LW radar hardware to Toshiba for subsequent delivery to the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF).

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) will deliver seven receiver-exciter-synchronizer-processors and four antenna gimbals under a fixed price, follow-on production contract from Toshiba. The work will be managed and manufactured at the company's McKinney, Texas, location.

The APS-134LW radar is part of Raytheon's SeaVue family of maritime and littoral surveillance mission systems. As such, the APS-134LW provides high performance capabilities in navigation, weather, long-range search, and small target detection to support JASDF's SAR (search and rescue) mission applications.

"The APS-134LW and the entire SeaVue line are high performance, long proven and accurate maritime surveillance radar," remarked Bill Manson, Raytheon's Japan program manager for Maritime Surveillance Radar. "We are pleased to continue this partnership with Toshiba and assure mission success for the JASDF international customer."

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