Raytheon
Missile Systems announced that it was awarded a $1.5 million contract
by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA.) To improve
warfighter situational awareness, the Company will design small
satellites for the first phase of Space Enabled Effects for Military
Engagements (SeeMe) program.
DARPA's
SeeMe program will deliver on-demand imagery information to
warfighters on the battlefield through a constellation of low-cost
satellites that the Department of Defense can schedule for launch
based on its operational tempos.
Raytheon
will manufacture the small, lightweight SeeMe satellites on its
cutting-edge missile assembly lines, which produce exoatmospheric
kill vehicles of similar standards.
The
contract stipulates that the Raytheon team must build half a dozen
satellites in 2013 for the second, ground testing phase of the SeeMe
program. Sierra Nevada Corporation, University of Arizona, and SRI
International will be assisting Raytheon with design work and
production.
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