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During 2006, IIS continued to grow its classified business, gaining numerous contracts on major classified programs. IIS
also continued to work on a broad range of cutting-edge programs, including developing the Distributed Common
Ground System (DCGS) Integrated Backbone, providing worldwide support for the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, assisting
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with scientific and engineering services and creating new
control systems for unmanned vehicles. In addition, IIS earned a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®) Level
3 certification across the business, the newest standard for benchmarking best practices for product and service
development in the defense industry.
Operating in four key market areas, DoD/civil space, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Federal
information technology, and homeland security, IIS serves a variety of customers including, the U.S. Air Force and Navy,
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
(NGA), as well as other federal, civil, military and international customers. IIS also partners with the intelligence
community to provide intelligence solutions under numerous classified programs.
IIS consists of the following business areas:
ⳮStrategic Intelligence Systems (SIS)—SIS provides system engineering, development, integration and life cycle
support of complex, large-scale, commercial-off-the-shelf-based systems for commercial and proprietary imaging
customers. Under a proprietary program, SIS provides program management and engineering support to the National
Reconnaissance Office.
ⳮNational Systems (NS)—NS provides systems and operational support for signals intelligence (SIGINT) and
multi-intelligence (multi-INT) missions. Areas of concentration include mission/resource management, real-time
mission execution, signal processing and analysis, information management and knowledge discovery, and OM&E
support.
ⳮSpace Systems (SS)—SS provides satellite command and control software and provides mission and resource
management, end-to-end information and network management, and modeling and simulation capabilities to its
customers. SS is developing the fully integrated global ground system that speeds data delivery for the National Polar-
orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), a satellite system used to monitor global
environmental conditions and collect and disseminate data related to weather, atmosphere, oceans, land and near-
space environment.
ⳮOperational Technologies and Solutions (OTS)—OTS provides information management systems,
broadband broadcast systems and operations support through its diverse capabilities. These capabilities include
managing state-of-the-art collection systems and products for human intelligence (HUMINT), managing large
volumes of information securely and reliably, and providing operations support to intelligence community customers.
OTS works on numerous classified programs.
ⳮRaytheon Information Solutions (RIS)—RIS provides information technology solutions in high performance
and technical computing, enterprise systems, e-Commerce, logistics management, and scientific and engineering services.
RIS is developing a self-verifying device combining biometrics and radio frequency technology under the US-VISIT
program, an integrated, automated system to track the entry and exit of visitors in and out of the U.S.
ⳮTactical Intelligence Systems (TIS)—TIS provides products and services relating to manned and unmanned
SIGINT sensors, ground control of airborne SIGINT sensors, multi-INT ground systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
(UAV) ground stations and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) battle space management. In
connection with the U.S. Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) 10.2 program to modernize the Air
Force’s distributed ISR systems, TIS developed the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB), an open architecture designed
to allow seamless intelligence data sharing and collaboration among the various military services and our allies. The
DIB is currently being used by all four U.S. military services and has been identified as the future standard for DoD
ISR systems.
Missile Systems (MS)—MS, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, is a premier developer and producer of missile
systems for the armed forces of the U.S. and other allied nations. Leveraging its key capabilities in advanced airframes,
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