ANDOVER — Defense contractor Raytheon was awarded a $646 million contract to continue producing advanced maritime radars for the U.S. Navy.
The radar, called the SPY-6, is one of several radar programs designed and manufactured at Raytheon’s Radar Development Facility, 350 Lowell St. The 30,000, square-foot site is vertically integrated and highly automated and supports the production of different radars for U.S. and allied forces.
The SPY-6 family of radars performs air and missile defense for seven classes of ships, according to Raytheon’s website. The integrated radars have the ability to defend against ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missiles and hostile aircraft and surface ships simultaneously.
This is the fourth option exercised from a hardware, production and sustainment contract in March 2022 that is valued up to $3 billion over five years. Three years ago, Raytheon won a $651 million radar contract with the Navy to outfit new surface ships with radar that can find and track enemy missiles and planes at the same time.
Under this contract, Raytheon will provide the U.S Navy with four additional radars. This increases the total amount of radars under contract for procurement to 42. A majority of the work under the contract will take place in Andover through 2028.
“SPY-6 enables the U.S. Navy to see further than they’ve ever seen before, providing sailors with more time to respond to detected threats,” President of Naval Power at Raytheon Barbara Borgonovi said.
“This latest contract builds on our decades of experience and technical expertise in developing modular, scalable, and highly maintainable radars.”