Raytheon receives DCGS support follow-on award
Raytheon will provide field support for the US Air Force’s high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and the Distributed Command Ground System (DCGS) mission under a $174.5 million follow-on contract announced on 4 November.
DCGS is a worldwide distributed, network centric, system-of-systems architecture that conducts collaborative intelligence operations. DCGS provides both physical and electronic distribution of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, processes, and systems.
Raytheon has supported over 14,000 airborne missions and more than 20,000 ground missions for the US Air Force as part of the Contractor Field Services programme since 2005.
The contract will see Raytheon lead a team to provide around-the-clock contractor field services to the warfighter at numerous sites around the globe. Operations support includes system maintenance, operations training, pre-flight system checks, mission support during flights, post-mission problem analysis, and new system installations and upgrades.
The Raytheon team also supports data processing and dissemination for unmanned system sensors, ground controls, and data links
Todd Probert, vice president, mission support and modernization, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, said: ‘Our contractor field service representatives offer mission critical expertise and are intimately familiar with how entire systems work which allows them to successfully support the DCGS mission. Our long partnership with the air force has allowed Raytheon to seamlessly collaborate with our customer to achieve mission success - we have reduced cost while maximising system availability.’
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