Raytheon team wins $81m US Army R&D deal

Federal contractor Raytheon's R&D subsidiary BBN Technologies has won a five-year $81m contract from the Army Research Laboratory to create a collaborative technology alliance in network science.

Under the ARL Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance, the company will pursue fundamental research in network science to identify the commonalities that apply to diverse kinds of networks. The consortium will examine communication, information, and social and cognitive networks and will include leading researchers from all of these disciplines.

BBN Technologies' team will include more than 30 university and industrial labs, from an Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC) to be established at the subsidiary's headquarters in Massachusetts. The IRC will conduct research in network science and transition new technologies to the Department of Defense (DoD).

Tad Elmer, president at Raytheon BBN Technologies, said: "This contract award reinforces our leadership in networking research. Our team is determined to develop the underlying technologies that will make networks more flexible, adaptable and secure."

Last month, a Raytheon team won a $28m contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to develop integrated network operations situational awareness across DoD classified and unclassified cyber networks.

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