Overview
- Raytheon announced the $1.8 billion production and sustainment extension on July 21, with contract options that could raise the program value to $3.3 billion.
- The contract continues work on the SPY‑6 family, which is already installed on two commissioned U.S. Navy ships and on 11 more vessels in various stages of testing.
- SPY‑6 uses small, factory-made Radar Modular Assemblies that can be stacked into different array sizes so the same radar technology can serve destroyers, carriers, amphibious ships and retrofit older hulls.
- Raytheon has invested more than $800 million in manufacturing upgrades and is hiring engineers in Andover, Massachusetts, to support production growth and projected doubling of output by 2028.
- The extension builds on an initial hardware production and sustainment award from March 2022 and supports the Navy’s effort to standardize fleet sensing to improve detection range, logistics, and cross‑platform support.