Raytheon Canada Limited
Raytheon Canada was incorporated in 1956 to undertake the production and installation of Primary Surveillance Radars in Canada. The result of this effort gave Canada the world's first national civil Air Traffic Control radar network. The company expanded both its engineering and manufacturing capabilities over the intervening years and now occupies a 126,000 square foot facility on a 25 acre site in Waterloo, Ontario.
Raytheon Canada is recognized as a world leader in the design and manufacture of a broad range of air traffic control and communications systems for civil and military application. Communications systems were developed primarily in the terrestrial microwave and satellite ground terminal sector. Major systems, designed and manufactured at the Waterloo facility, are installed in Canada, the U.S. and throughout the world.
Organizationally, the company is part of Raytheon Company's Equipment Division. Raytheon Company, with more than $9.2 Billion (U.S.) in sales in 1993, is ranked among the 50 largest corporations in the U.S. and addresses a broad range of business areas including government and commercial electronics, general aviation, appliances, industry and environmental services, construction and publishing. Electronics accounts for approximately 60% of total sales. Raytheon has a total of seven divisions and 11 major operating subsidiaries with more than 80 plants and laboratories located principally in North America and Europe.
The Equipment Division is involved in the design, development and manufacture of a broad range of high technology systems for Air Traffic Control, Communications, Data Acquisition, Command and Control, Electro Optics, Mil-Spec Computers, Radar and Ship Systems and Satellite Terminal Systems.
Raytheon Canada is a Canadian company doing business in a number of technology sectors that reflect a cross section of the overall Division capability. Access to such a major source of technology and expertise is one factor that has been instrumental in allowing the company to address domestic and international market requirements with state-of-the-art systems and from a Canadian perspective. Access to technology should not be interpreted as the ability to simply propagate U.S. designs but rather the ability to access technology at the conceptual or system level and apply that resource to the development of unique products.
While Raytheon Canada has been involved in a number of projects for DND from the Counter Mortar Radar in 1961 to the Close Range Missile system in 1968 and, more recent, the Vertical Launch Sea Sparrow for the Canadian Frigate Program, it is only over the last five years that DND's requirements have been addressed from the development perspective.
Recognizing that Raytheon Canada can make a significant contribution as a Canadian defence contractor, the company has targeted a number of discrete but related areas of technology. In all cases, the chosen sectors benefit from Division capability and expertise and provide the opportunity to expand the overall corporate capability and not simply repeat business already addressed. The business areas addressed by Raytheon Canada may be divided into two categories: air traffic control, and communications and surveillance. How these two areas have developed and how they are adapting to address the future is described in the succeeding paragraphs.
The traditional business of Raytheon Canada began with the incorporation of the company in 1956 to produce radar systems for Canada's ATC radar network. The product line subsequently expanded to include VOR and DME Navigation Equipments and various radars in both L-Band and S-Band. Systems are installed in Canada and many international locations.
The company competed for, and won, the RAMP system in 1984. This system is now in the final stages of commissioning and represents the largest single program ever undertaken by Raytheon Canada. The system comprises 24 Primary Surveillance Radars and 17 Secondary Surveillance Radars installed at sites across Canada from coast to coast. Ten Radar Data Processing Systems and 29 Display Systems are located at a number of airports and ATC centres spread across the country.
The equipment is completely solid-state and designed for unattended operation. All systems are interconnected via a communications network into a complex computerized control and monitoring system that facilitates remote operation, diagnostics and maintenance in addition to "mosaicing" the data fusion to provide a comprehensive, real-time picture of Canadian airspace. The entire system was Raytheon designed.
The RAMP project was completed in 1992 and within budget. This attests to the overall engineering and manufacturing capabilities of the company and the viability of Raytheon's management systems in controlling a complex and diverse project. Design and development was divided between Raytheon Canada and Equipment Division Labs as the only practical way to address the resource requirements necessary to design a complete radar, signal processing and display systems against a very tight delivery schedule. Software alone accounted for more than 400,000 source lines of code.
Raytheon Canada occupies a dominant position in the development of surveillance radars for air traffic control. As a derivative of the RAMP radar, Raytheon Canada is developing a new low cost solid state S-Band and L-Band radars for international markets. in addition, Raytheon Canada builds a family of military surveillance and ground control approach radars.
Air Traffic Control is seen as a growth industry over the next decade as many of the less highly developed parts of the world open their borders to increases air transportation. In many cases, the expansion of air transportation is the only practical approach to achieving rapid access to emerging nations.
Communications and Surveillance Systems
Raytheon Canada began the development of terrestrial microwave radio equipment in the 60's based on technology transferred from Raytheon U.S. The primary customers were the provincial Telephone Companies and a number of broadcasting organizations and other common carriers.
Against international competition, the company, in 1971, won a contract in India to supply what was at the time, the world's longest microwave system. The systems was designed for transmission of 1800 channel FDM message traffic and colour television and comprised over 600 Transmitter/Receivers and associated baseband and protection subsidiary equipment.
The company continued through the 1970's to design and manufacture terrestrial microwave systems and broadened the product base to include both Baseband and ID 1:N Protection Switching Systems. Systems became more complex and performance increased to meet the exacting requirements of 1800 and then 2400 channel systems. major systems that spanned five countries in West Africa and a number of long haul systems in the U.S.
Telesat Canada launched the world's first domestic satellite systems and in the early '70's, Raytheon Canada developed and manufactured a range of Remote TV and thin Route Message North Stations. Raytheon installed this equipment throughout northern Canada to provide communications services and TV programming to remote and otherwise inaccessible regions. The technology was developed in Waterloo and expanded over the years to address a number of requirements including Small Air Transportable Earth Stations and 90 Mbps Digital Terminals.
The development of technology at Raytheon Canada to address an emerging Defence requirement in Canada was initiated in 1985. in keeping with the company's experience in communication and radar, these areas were the initial focus of Raytheon Canada's defence business.
The first of several development projects required the design a Fast Hopping Frequency Synthesizer for Defence Research Establishment Ottawa (DREO). This was seen as a core component in any future military SATCOM terminal and in addition, would have application in a broad range of other communications systems. The initial synthesizer contract was completed within budget and on schedule and all performance specifications were met and demonstrated.
Raytheon Canada undertook a range of study contracts in the EHF SATCOM and Space Based Radar programs for DREO in the following years and established capability and expertise in these high technology fields. Raytheon Canada is now teamed with MPR Teltech and Com Dev for the FASSET project with direct responsibility for the Low Data Rate modem, the Terminal Controller and the Fast Hopping Frequency Synthesizers for both the Ground Terminals and the Communications Satellite Payload. The FASSET project will be completed in December 1994 with the delivery by Raytheon Canada of the first Canadian Developed anti-jam, low probability of intercept EHF SATCOM terminals to DND.
Since the early contracts in Space Based Radar, the company has produced significant original work for DREO and is establishing the capabilities and resources to play a major role in SBR when that project begins to move. At the present time, the company is teamed with MacDonald Dettwiler to develop the SBR Signal Processing Demonstrator System for DREO. Raytheon Canada's role in this project is to develop the Radar Signal Simulator, the ECCM subsystems and to develop the signal processing algorithms. The technology developed by Raytheon Canada for SBR is being utilized in several new developments by the Company.
Addressing another surveillance niche that offers substantial business potential both in Canada and internationally, Raytheon Canada is now developing an integrated maritime Surveillance System for surveillance of the Exclusive Economic Zone, generally out to the 200 nautical mile limit.
The SWR-503 Surface Wave Radar, developed at Raytheon Canada, provides primary surveillance out to a range of 500 km at an extremely attractive cost per square kilometer of coverage. This technology will capitalize on Raytheon Canada's capability in signal processing, detection and tracking.
Command and Control is the final area of technology being developed at Raytheon Canada. Again, this is a major technology area within the corporation and Raytheon has developed and fielded a broad range of systems. The development of capabilities at Raytheon Canada is in response to the increasing importance of Command and Control in both the military, where more efficient use of assets is one answer to shrinking defense budgets, and in the civil sector where greater emphasis is being placed in areas such as wide area surveillance, disaster recovery and emergency measures. Command and Control is also a complementary technology with respect to Government initiatives in communications and radar systems where the emphasis is on unattended operations and increased reliance on more automated operation to reduce staffing and related operating costs.
Raytheon Canada Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company's Equipment Division. Raytheon Company, headquartered in Lexington, Mass., is a diversified technology company active in Electronics, Aircraft Products, Energy and Environmental Services, major Appliances, Construction and Publishing. The company employs 63,800 world wide and recorded sales of $9.2 Billion (U.S.) in 1993.