Raytheon's ISS currently installed on the Global Hawk provides near real- time imagery and has been combat proven in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor on the Global Hawk high-altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft.

"We are very pleased to provide our customers with the most capable sensor systems required for today's network centric operations," said Thomas A. Kennedy, vice president Unmanned & Reconnaissance Systems. "The Raytheon Integrated Sensor Suite has earned an outstanding reputation for providing persistence to the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance community."

Under the LRIP Lot 3 contract, Raytheon will produce two ISS and the first production unit of an EISS. The Raytheon ISS is a true multi-intelligence system including SAR with ground moving target indicator, an EO/IR sensor, integrated sensor control and signal processing.

The Raytheon work will be done in El Segundo, Calif., as part of the Global Hawk LRIP Lot 3 effort awarded to Northrop Grumman by the U.S. Air Force, with a scheduled completion date of March 2006.

In addition to the ISS, Raytheon also produces the Global Hawk ground element from its Intelligence and Information Systems operation in Falls Church, Va.

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