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Raytheon Completes 1st At-Sea Trial of SPY-6 V1 Radar on Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer

Raytheon Completes 1st At-Sea Trial of SPY-6 V1 Radar on Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event

Raytheon Technologies hopes to replicate the at-sea trial results of the first version of its SPY-6 radar with other variants of the Air and Missile Defense Radar system once it begins at-sea tests later this year, Defense News reported Monday.

SPY-6 V1, which comes with four large radar faces, was integrated with the U.S. Navy’s Jack H. Lucas Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer (DDG 125) and the Lockheed Martin-built Aegis Combat System and was tested for the first time in December as part of a series of at-sea tests following the departure of the vessel from the shipyard of HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Mississippi.

“Coming out of those trials, we really hit a home run with the performance of the radar out at sea, which the Navy is very, very excited about — to the point that they ended up ending the trials a day early because all the objectives were met early,” Mike Mills, SPY-6 program director for Raytheon Missiles & Defense, told the publication.

Mills said the Raytheon team discovered a couple of software issues during the alpha trials and will work to address them before the next phase of SPY-6 V1 at-sea trials and V2 and V3 radar testing kick off later in 2023 and 2024.

He noted that the SPY-6 V2 radar is already installed on the USS Richard M. McCool Jr. amphibious transport dock and is expected to enter the first at-sea testing in the late summer. 

The SPY-6 V3 radar installed on the future aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy is set to be activated in the late summer or early fall in preparation for at-sea trials and delivery to the Navy in 2024, according to Mills.

In March 2022, Raytheon received a potential $3.2 billion contract to produce SPY-6 hardware in rotating, solid-state and fixed-face variants for installation on naval ships.

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Written by Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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