Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) has been awarded an $8.6 million contract to provide APS-134LW radar hardware to Toshiba for subsequent delivery to the Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF). SAS will deliver seven receiver- exciter-synchronizer-processors and four antenna gimbals under a fixed price, follow-on production contract from Toshiba. The equipment will be manufactured at Raytheon's McKinney, Texas, facility.

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The APS-134LW radar is a member of Raytheon's SeaVue family of maritime and littoral surveillance mission systems. It will provide high-performance capabilities in navigation, weather, long-range search, and small target detection to support JASDF's SAR (search and rescue) mission applications.

Raytheon's partnership with Toshiba provides the APS-134LW as the basis of what JASDF calls the APQ-2 radar. Toshiba is supplying the radar transmitter and antenna reflector for the APQ-2, which is installed on the JASDF U-125A (Hawker 800) aircraft. Raytheon also supports Toshiba with spares, repairs and technical support.

Raytheon SAS supplies sensor systems for military hardware that provide information to network-centric battlefields. The company's headquarters is in El Segundo, Calif. with additional facilities in Goleta, Calif.; Forest, Miss.; Dallas, McKinney and Plano, Texas--as well as several international locations.