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Raytheon Well Represented at Robotics Championship

The FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Championship was held in April at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, and 11 Raytheon-supported teams were among the 8,600 students competing in the "super bowl" of high school robotics.

The Raytheon teams had a strong showing — posting an impressive combined record of 42-27-1 in the division-round matches, with three advancing to the elimination round. Leading the way was the Penguin Bots — Team 1717 representing Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, Calif. The team ranked second out of 85 teams in the Galileo Division, with a record of six wins and one loss, and won twice in the elimination round before bowing out in a match to the eventual FIRST world champion.

Spring Symposia

More than 400 engineers, technologists, customers and suppliers attended this year's annual RF Systems Symposium in Boston, Mass., on May 5. The four-day event was themed, "Affordable, Disruptive Technology for Best Value Solutions," and it marked a turning point in the strategic direction of the Raytheon Technology Networks (TNs). The RF Technology Network was the first to announce its name change at the symposium: the Multifunction RF Systems Technology Network (MRFSTN). This change was prompted by the need for the TNs to be more closely aligned with the company's strategic technology goals.

Heidi Shyu, vice president of Corporate Technology and Research, emphasized this need for alignment in her opening remarks about the changing battlespace environment and the growth of bifurcated threats — both asymmetric and near-peer — throughout the world. Our adversaries have not only learned to hide, but they are growing in C4 capability. Shyu also noted that with the proliferation of Internet access worldwide, increased sophistication of cyber threats from terrorists has become a source of major concern. By realigning the TNs, their strengths can be leveraged in far greater ways to address current capability gaps and innovate next-generation solutions.