H IGHLIGHTING R AYTHEON ’ S T ECHNOLOGY
2005 Issue 4
MISSION ASSURANCE
How Raytheon is Leveraging Technology to Ensure “No Doubt”
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Space and Airborne Systems Achieves Raytheon First Business-wide CMMI Level 3 Certification
“[CMMI] allows us to focus our people around a common definable goal, one that has clear, tangible benefits to the business. I am excessively proud of what this team has accomplished,” said Nancy Fleischer, SAS process integration lead. •
John Barksdale,
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Largest scope appraisal for $4 billion business Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) was recently rated by the Center for Systems Management (CSM) as having successfully reached Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®) Level 3 in accordance with the standards established by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) for process maturity in hardware, systems and software engineering. This is the first time a Raytheon business has been rated Level 3 across all of its locations in all three disciplines, and it is believed to be the largest scope appraisal completed by any business the size of SAS. The SAS organization in McKinney, Texas, was rated Level 5 in software in a previous appraisal. This Level 5 rating will stand until the next appraisal, leading the way for the rest of the organization in its drive to achieve Level 5 across the board. Former SAS President Jack Kelble pointed out the significance of the achievement. “It means our customers can rest assured that when they work with SAS, they will know we’re integrated throughout all our engineering disciplines. By integrating our functions, regions and businesses into one process, we have taken a different approach than our industry peers, giving us a significant competitive edge in the marketplace.” That single process, the SAS Enterprise Management System (EMS) was deployed to all of Engineering, Quality, Program Management and Supply Chain — some 7,000 employees. Under EMS, all programs follow a common process, which they are able to tailor to meet specific program needs. 26 2005 ISSUE 4 RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGY TODAY
While there is no explicit CMMI model to include hardware design activities such as electrical and mechanical design, SAS brought forward hardware development plans — including organizational competency models, training certifications for hardware engineers, mechanical design drawings, electronic schematics, component design reviews, peer reviews and test results — to demonstrate maturity in its hardware disciplines. Linda Kovar, senior programs manager, Air Combat Avionics, led the CMMI appraisal team. She noted that predictable performance begins with well-understood, welldocumented processes that can be repeatedly followed. “We are telling our customers that we are capable of working as a team, across our organization, to a defined level of performance,” Kovar said. “We brought the legacy systems together and synergized them,” said Bob Kern, former SAS Engineering vice president. “Now we’re able to transfer technical work much more efficiently between locations and balance out resource constraints in one part of the business with areas of under-utilization in another.” Kovar credited the team’s success to a dedicated, highly skilled enterprise process group, active local site management and executive leadership that believed in and drove the vision. “The team’s efforts more than paid off,” Kovar said, “not just in terms of the business-wide Level 3 achievement, but in the way the process itself has positively impacted employees and the business.”
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems Business Achieves Defense Industry Recognized CMMI® Level 4 Rating
Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business recently achieved a CMMI Level 4 maturity rating resulting from an independent appraisal conducted on its Systems, Software and Hardware Engineering organizations. This evaluation validates IDS process maturity as well as disciplined sustained application. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the CMMI Product Team, consisted of representatives from industry, defense and the Software Engineering Institute. CMMI measures business process maturity levels and provides DoD with a way to assess risks and determine the level of process maturity that a company has achieved. It helps DoD predict performance, and CMMI maturity level ratings are often a prerequisite or discriminator for companies bidding on defense contracts.
“Achieving CMMI Level 4 is extremely important to us,” IDS President Dan Smith said. “It validates for us and for our customers that Raytheon IDS has statistical process controls in place to ensure performance and Mission Assurance. This is particularly important in this period of high growth for our business to fulfill our customer’s expectation for Mission Assurance.” “Achieving Level 4 is an important milestone for validating our processes and systems for more than 6,000 engineers in our distributed operations model,” said Mark Russell, vice president for IDS Engineering. “No matter where you are located or what project you work, we all use the same process, reducing variability and ensuring the same high quality from project to project.” Russell explained that an independent team of appraisers, led by Ralph Williams, president of Cooliemon, Inc., a Florida-based independent expert on business improvement, spent four weeks at Raytheon IDS reviewing approximately 7,000 documents and interviewing 160 engineers, project and program managers before granting the Level 4 rating. “What makes this appraisal significant is its range and scope,” said Robert Smith, IDS engineering director for Strategic Development, Raytheon Six Sigma™ and Processes. “Others in the industry choose to pursue CMMI ratings for a particular facility, sector or project — piecemeal. We’ve chosen to pursue a Level 4 rating for our entire business. Because all of our functional areas are integrated and mutually supporting, we think this broader approach makes better sense and provides the best value to our customers.” • CMMI is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University. Raytheon Six Sigma is a trademark of Raytheon Company.
SAS’ Electronic Warfare Systems exemplifies Customer Focused Marketing One Company effort lands Raytheon a $10 million award for new radar warning receiver technology Performance With the collaboration of Missile Systems (MS), Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) and Network Centric Systems (NCS), SAS’ Electronic Warfare Systems (EWS) in Goleta, Calif., has won a $10 million contract for an advanced concept technology demonstration of Advanced tactical targeting technology (AT3) for Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Robins Air Force Base, Ga. Key to this success are James Taylor, who manages the AT3 programs at Tucson, Ariz.; Dan Pinda, chief engineer for AT3; and Dennis O’Donoghue, lead on the Situational Awareness Data Link modifications for AT3 at NCS. The technology will be demonstrated in 2007 on three F-16 Block 30 aircraft using EWS’ digital radar warning receiver, the ALR-69A(V). The aircraft will be networked to share precise signal measurements in a timely manner, providing 360-degree coverage to rapidly and accurately locate radio frequency (RF) emitters from any angle of arrival without use of external hardware. This demonstration will build upon MS’ 2003 success of a U.S. Air Force Research Labs/Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) AT3 advanced technical demonstration. The contract also contains $11 million in options for additional test phases of the program.
Relationships Team members from Raytheon MS developed the targeting technology, with NCS adding the required datalink technology (SADL) to successfully integrate the disparate functionalities into the ALR-69A(V). The team’s shared efforts resulted in lower cost, lower risk and added value to the customer. “The award represents a One Company effort and would not have been possible without MS’ and NCS’ expertise,” said Pat Hurley, vice president and general manager for EWS. “This is the type of collaboration that distinguishes Raytheon from our competition: 100 percent Mission Systems Integration.” The team will continue to work together on this new contract. “The collaboration will enable us to demonstrate a technology that is more rapid and accurate than previous approaches,” said Rob Deaton, senior program manager leading the AT3 ACTD. “It will bring improved situational awareness to the U.S. Air Force fleet, as well as a capability for multiplatform geolocation to support their ‘sensors forward’ concept of operation. This is only possible by pulling together subject matter experts from other parts of the company.”
Solutions ALR-69A AT3 is the first implementation of net-centric attack operations on fighter aircraft. AT3 will dramatically reduce the time required by our forces to break the enemy kill chain at a time and place of the warfighter’s choosing. AT3 is a true force multiplier. By moving into a “net-centric” mode, detection and targeting systems/sensors can work together, and different sensors on different aircraft can work together automatically to share information, reduce reaction time and offer more precise targeting information so that enemy threats can be identified and defeated. In general, it instills in warfighters more confidence and, more importantly, more capability to anticipate and defeat threats. The U.S. Air Force is planning to equip with AT3 technology on additional platforms such as the F-15. EWS plans to participate in a demonstration test for the F-15 at Wright Patterson Air Force base in early 2006. The ALR-69A(V) receiver system used for the AT3 demonstration is an upgrade of the ALR69(V), which is currently installed on U.S. Air Force C-130, F-16, A-10, and MH-53 aircraft. Raytheon was awarded the ALR-69A(V) program in August 2001. • For more information, visit www.raytheon.com/ew. RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGY TODAY 2005 ISSUE 4 27
