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Raytheon Co. upgrades MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned air system (UAS) control console
with open-systems software to enhance interoperability among military UAV control systems,
reduce costs, and facilitate future upgrades.

Officials of the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md.,
announced a $21.6 million contract to the Raytheon Technical Services Co. in Dulles, Va.,
for software upgrades involving the Fire Scout tactical control system (TCS) 2016 Linux cyber baseline.

The U.S. Navy Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aerial system (UAS)
is an unmanned helicopter deployed on Navy destroyers, littoral combat ships, and
other surface combatants for reconnaissance, situational awareness, and precision targeting

Raytheon software engineers will continue switching software for the Fire Scout control system
into compliance with the Pentagon's standard UAS Control Segment (UCS) architecture
-- a framework of software-intensive capabilities of current and future U.S. military unmanned vehicles.

Raytheon has been working since 2014 to switch the Fire Scout tactical control system from Solaris to Linux software,
and upgrade the system with universal UAV control qualities.
The company also has upgraded the TCS full-motion video capability,
its shipboard messaging formats, and training and simulation capabilities.

This contract calls for Raytheon not only to switch Fire Scout software to the UCS architecture,
but also to introduce modern intuitive controls;
integrate SAU 7000 messaging; and test and support the software in the field.

The Raytheon TCS is designed to operate UAVs in all branches of the U.S. military,
as well as NATO STANAG 4586-compliant UAVs.
Raytheon developed the TCS to run on the proprietary Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 software operating system,
which is approaching the end of its useful life in U.S. military applications.

The TCS can be configured in racks for ship-based operations,
shelterized as a land-based system, or
integrated into a shelter on land vehicles such as the HMMWV.

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