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19 October 2016

AFRL and OSD award Raytheon $14.9m Title III contract to enhance GaN process technology

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) have awarded Raytheon Company of Waltham, MA, USA a $14.9m Title III contract to further enhance its process for producing gallium nitride (GaN)-based semiconductors. The new agreement follows a previous GaN Title III contract, completed in 2013, and aims to increase the performance, yield and reliability of Raytheon GaN-based, wideband, monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) and circulator components.

As GaN can efficiently amplify high-power radio frequency signals at microwave frequencies (enhancing a system's range and raid handling, while reducing size, weight, power and cost), it is used in a broad spectrum of military radars and defense systems, including the US Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) and Next Generation Jammer (NGJ).

"We have only scratched the surface when it comes to harnessing the game-changing power that gallium nitride technology can bring to military applications," believes Colin Whelan, VP of advanced technology in Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business unit. "This contract will build on the 17-year, $200m+ investment Raytheon has made in maturing GaN," he adds. "Over the next two years, we will further refine our GaN process to push the limits of radio frequency performance while maintaining or increasing yield and reliability."

The first demonstrator of this technology will be incorporated into Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems' Next Generation Jammer program, which is scheduled for low-rate initial production in 2018.

See related items:

US Army grants Raytheon $1.1m to develop GaN-based front-ends for Next Generation Radar program

Raytheon wins $279.4m contract for Technology Development phase of US Navy's Next Generation Jammer program

US government honors Raytheon for completing Title III GaN production improvement program

Tags: Raytheon GaN MMIC Radar

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