page_title: Raytheon Company
section_title: Radars and sensors
hierarchical_section_title: Raytheon Company / Products and services / Radars and sensors
context_page_description: The Raytheon Company was a major U.S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics. It was previously involved in corporate and special-mission aircraft until early 2007. Raytheon was the world's largest producer of guided missiles. In April 2020, the company merged with United Technologies Corporation to form Raytheon Technologies.
  Established in 1922, the company reincorporated in 1928 and adopted its present name in 1959. As of 2018, the company had around 67,000 employees worldwide and annual revenues of approximately US$25.35 billion. More than 90% of Raytheon's revenues were obtained from military contracts and, as of 2012, it was the fifth-largest military contractor in the world. As of 2015, it was the third largest defense contractor in the United States by defense revenue.
  In 2003, Raytheon's headquarters moved from Lexington, Massachusetts, to Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had previously been headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1922 to 1928, Newton, Massachusetts, from 1928 to 1941, Waltham from 1941 to 1961 and Lexington from 1961 to 2003.
context_section_description: Raytheon is a developer and manufacturer of radars (including AESAs), electro-optical sensors, and other advanced electronics systems for airborne, naval and ground based military applications. Examples include:
  APG-63/APG-70 radars for the F-15 Eagle
  APG-65/APG-73/APG-79 radars for the F/A-18 Hornet
  APG-77 radar for the F-22 Raptor (joint development with Northrop Grumman)
  APG-84 RACR radar
  ALE-50 towed decoy
  ALR-67(V)3 and ALR-69A radar warning receivers
  AN/APQ-181 (AESA upgrade currently in development), for the B-2 Spirit bomber
  Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS) for the RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV
  ASQ-228 ATFLIR (Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared) pod
  TPQ-36/TPQ-37 Firefinder and MPQ-64 Sentinel mobile battlefield radars
  F-16 RACR, designed for the F-16 using AESA technology
  SLQ-32 shipboard EW system
  Large fixed-site radars such as PAVE PAWS, BMEWS, and the Missile Defense Agency X-band Radar (XBR)
caption: A PAVE PAWS Early Warning Radar System built by Raytheon, based at Clear AFS, Alaska
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