The First British Army's Joint Effects Tactical Targeting System Delivered

Raytheon Systems Ltd, HARLOW, U.K: Today, 31 August, 2005, the first of three Engineering Builds of JETTS, the British Army's Joint Effects Tactical Targeting System, was delivered by Prime Contractor Raytheon Systems Limited (RSL) on schedule to the JETTS Integration and Test facility at Warminster. Users and Subject Matter Experts will test this build in the JETTS Battle Lab over the next few months. Feedback will be incorporated into the further two builds that go to make up the final deliverable for the Assessment Phase.  
 
RSL, which won the Assessment Phase of this major programme in July 2004, has been able to demonstrate JETTS' successful adaptable architecture and show considerable de-risking of this key programme. The current Assessment Phase is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2006, when the programme is planned to obtain approval to enter the Design Demonstration and Manufacture phases. At this point RSL would provide the Army with its first fieldable elements of JETTS. The Field Army will receive incremental upgrades to this key enabler for NEC through to 2012 and beyond.  
 
Jack Cronin, President and Managing Director for RSL, said: “The JETTS Assessment Phase is critical to de-risk the JETTS programme. It shows that we have developed and demonstrated a set of software tools, which improve tempo for the Land Component Commander in the targeting process. This is an important programme for RSL, it draws on our worldwide capabilities across the company and our JETTS Team. This on-time delivery of our first Engineering Build demonstrates our commitment to the customer and is a key element of our Critical Design Review, which will take place in the very near future.”  
 
Lt Col Steve James, the MoD's FAWS IPT Programme Manager for JETTS, said “This delivery within the tight timeframe demanded by the JETTS programme is an excellent effort by all parties including Raytheon, its sub-contractors and MoD itself. We are progressing well and are on track to deliver the Assessment Phase. This first increment goes a long way to delivering completing our de-risked programme for this phase.”  
 
Building on a major tenet of the JETTS application, that of an open and adaptable architecture, RSL has demonstrated that even at this early stage in its development JETTS is capable of being deployed and communicating between different fielded platforms. Within the Battle Lab, JETTS will be integrated and exercised with Information Infrastructures and will show successful transfer of information between both JETTS applications and external applications.  
 
RSL, the UK-based subsidiary of Raytheon Company, employs over 1,500 people. The company is thea Prime Contractor for JETTS and a major supplier to the UK Ministry of Defence and isas well as being involved in numerous, high priority programmes for the US Department of Defense. RSL designs, develops and manufactures a range of high technology defence and commercial electronics.