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 INTERVIEW
OWNING

THE SKIES

Raytheon’s range of air dominance solutions
helps customers control the skies and dictate
the terms and conditions of a fight

By ARUN SIVASANKARAN
Bryan Rosselli
RTX’s air dominance solutions for advanced fighters ensure that president of Advanced Products
when pilots take to the skies, they can be confident that their systems & Solutions for Raytheon.
will help them succeed during every mission, says Bryan Rosselli,
president of Advanced Products & Solutions for Raytheon.
F/A-18 and F-15, respectively. We are in pro-
APS specializes in integrated air and missile defence, advanced duction for the F-35 Electro-Optical Distributed
sensors, space-based systems, hypersonics, effectors and cyber Aperture System and we have a suite of Electronic
solutions. In an interview, Rosselli speaks about the company’s air Warfare products, such as our Radar Warning
dominance solutions, its presence in the APAC region, and the com- Receivers (ALR-69), among other things.
pany’s partnerships with defence firms in South Korea and other
countries in the region. How much of an impact has the coming together
of Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace with
What are some of the air dominance solutions that RTX provides Raytheon had on the company’s ability to pro-
to its customers? vide air dominance and other military solutions
to customers?
Controlling the skies and dictating the terms and conditions of a
fight are critical to achieve air dominance. For that, pilots need a
complete range of solutions, including threat detection, enhanced RTX is the world’s largest aerospace and
situational awareness, engagement and landing. Our solutions for defence company. As one RTX, we have three
advanced fighters ensure that when pilots take to the skies, they industry leading businesses – Pratt & Whitney,
can be confident that their systems will help them succeed during Collins Aerospace, and Raytheon – engines, avi-
every mission. onics, communications, sensors, effectors and
mission equipment– all into one company. The
General Mark Kelly, Commander of Air Combat Command, said intellectual capital and mission knowledge we
“If we lose the war in the spectrum, have across the business is extraordinary.
we lose the war in the air and we lose it quickly.”
RTX provides the ability to conduct high fidelity
operational analysis and modeling of the plat-
While I can’t speak to all our air dominance solutions, I can confi- forms, mission equipment and weapons systems
dently say that we are closely tracking the needs of our customers - all in one place. We can help imagine the
relative to their future needs. We specialize in using open architec- next generation air dominance with high fidel-
ture systems that allow for rapid upgrades and optimal scalability, ity solutions that can be brought to life quickly.
while our radar, electro/optical infrared and electronic warfare Together, we are an expert in air dominance and
technologies enable superior detection, range, targeting, tracking every part of our business plays a part in ensur-
and protection. ing our customers keep their edge in the skies.

We have a remarkable legacy in combat proven sensors, which Look at the F-35 for example. Although we don’t
include our APG-79 and APG-82 radars that are deployed on the make the fighter jet platform, we provide the
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