Raytheon Shows Off Radio System Capabilities at Recent Army Exercise

Raytheon Company recently showed its tactical networking system’s capabilities at two major U.S. Army exercises, the company announced Friday.

According to Raytheon, its Mobile Ad hoc Interoperability Network GATEway MAINGATE radio system works by integrating heterogeneous groups of radios into a network in order to provide multiple channels of real-time video, situational awareness, chat and other applications.

It is composed of…

Raytheon BBN to Develop Program to Document Emerging Scientific Literature

Raytheon BBN, a subsidiary of Raytheon Co., has been selected to develop a program that expands the recognition and awareness of emerging technologies in published scientific, technical and patent literature, the company announced.

BBN will develop the program under a $5.2 million contract with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.

The Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition program, will…

DARPA Taps Raytheon for Cybersecurity Research Program

Raytheon announced today it has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support its Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales program, a cybersecurity initiative that will use algorithms to better detect anomalous behaviors and insider threats. Raytheon will create, adapt and apply technology to the problem of anomaly characterization and detection in large…

Raytheon Taps Kevin Brown to Lead Cybersecurity Ops at Fort Meade Offices

Raytheon announced today the appointment of Kevin Brown as vice president of the company’s Fort Meade operations and deputy of the Information Security Solutions product line. Brown comes to Raytheon from SAIC, where he was most recently senior vice president in charge of the cybersecurity services and solutions…

Raytheon Hosts Event to Bring Awareness of Cyber Threats to Utilities Industry

Raytheon, in partnership with the Texas A&M Energy Engineering Institute and the Energy Institute of the University of Texas at Austin, hosted a Cybersecurity Utilities Symposium this week.

With public utilities increasing their Internet presence, the industry is now also experiencing the threat of cyber attacks. The symposium aimed to raise awareness of the threat. Security…

Emerging Trend: Government Contractor’s Buying Cybersecurity Firms

Since the new administration took office in January of this year, an emerging trend of large government contractors acquiring cybersecurity firms has come to light. In case you missed it, here is a quick recap of top cyber firm acquisitions over the last few months. 

April: Harris Corporation acquires Chantilly, Virginia-based Crucial Security, Inc. Crucial Security Inc. sells offensive and defensive IT solutions.  April: Paradigm Holding’s, Inc. requests merger with Trinity Information Management Services. Trinity IMS…