Justification and Approvals.pdf

This document provides details of a federal contract award notice. The U.S. Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center awarded a contract to Raytheon Company on August 31, 2020 for $92.5 million. The contract requires Raytheon to provide production datalink radios that are interoperable with certain Special Operations programs and have approved encryption from the National Security Agency. The radios must fit within size constraints for various small diameter bombs and enable Special Operations forces to capture data during employment of those munitions in combat, training, and testing scenarios. Currently, data can only be captured over test ranges with telemetry receivers. The captured data will support performance evaluations, failure investigations, refining tactics and training feedback for small diameter bomb employment.