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WASHINGTON: Raytheon has won the Air Force’s $197 million contract to develop and build a new ground-based data processing system for missile warning, the company said today, which will allow operators in future to use data not just from the Air Force’s own infrared satellites but from any sensor based in space, on land or at sea.

Called the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) Mission Data Processing Application Framework (MDPAF), Raytheon’s open-source, software-centric system is being developed to process data from both the Air Force’s Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellites and the follow-on Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) constellation.

“We may be taking data from other sources in the future as well,” Karen Casey, chief engineer for Raytheon intelligence, information and services (IIS), told me today. “We are not limited.”

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