Raytheon Chosen to Innovate a CTEN for the Air Force’s Next-Gen Battle Management Framework
Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a division of Raytheon Technologies, has been chosen to develop a Common Tactical Edge Network, or CTEN, to support the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System. RI&S is among nine organizations selected to showcase components of the network.
CTEN will deliver edge networking solutions to assist operators in enabling distributable battle management command and control in highly contested settings, thereby supporting Joint All-Domain Command and Control.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space will leverage cutting-edge networking products created previously to illustrate an architecture that facilitates aerial network interoperability. To enhance this initiative, RI&S will broaden its proficiency in model-based systems engineering and DevSecOps as the foundation for the design to propel this advancement.
“We possess a distinguished history of developing robust, collaborative, and secure networks,” stated Paul Meyer, president of Department 22 at RI&S. “This empowers us to propose a solution equipped to fulfill the U.S. Air Force’s requirement for an interoperable and integrated convergence layer.”
“At Raytheon BBN, we’ve been pioneering state-of-the-art wireless communication systems since the 1970s,” remarked Jason Redi, president of Raytheon BBN. “Currently, we have targeted investments aimed at creating networked communications that extend across all domains from underwater to outer space. We are ensuring these novel advancements provide our clients essential advantages more swiftly, as they layer secure communications across various platforms in joint, all-domain, distributed, disrupted, disconnected, and denied environments.”
CTEN represents RI&S’ newest achievement in enhancing the Air Force’s alignment with the DOD’s JADC2 vision. Raytheon Technologies was recently recognized as an industry collaborator for the U.S. Air Force ABMS Digital Infrastructure Consortium.
Raytheon Technologies is contributing its extensive multi-domain capabilities in space systems, resilient communications, sensors, effectors, secure processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and mission software to the DOD JADC2 framework.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s work will be executed out of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Aerial Networks Division at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. The selected companies will present their solutions in the fourth quarter of 2022.
