Raytheon Solipsys has been awarded two follow-on homeland defense contracts by the U. S. Air Force and NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) that will enhance the ability to recognize and track aircraft and other potential airborne threats operating within U.S. airspace. Under the original NORAD contract, Raytheon Solipsys installed multiple tactical display framework systems in the air warning center of the Cheyenne Mountain operational complex.

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The contracts were awarded by the Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., to augment an existing support contract with "24 x 7" on-call technical assistance, traditional phone and e-mail support, and on-site legacy system cut-over support.

Immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, at the request of the Air Force, Raytheon Solipsys applied its existing multisource correlator tracker and tactical display framework products to establish the NORAD Contingency Suite (NCS) system. NCS provides military personnel and government officials with airborne threat recognition capabilities and facilitates the exchange of time-critical, decision-quality information among supporting agencies and systems.