Boeing

Website: www.boeing.com/bds

Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems boeing.com/ids/index.html is one of the world's largest space and defense businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world's largest and most versatile manufacturer of military aircraft. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is a $32 billion business with 70,000 employees worldwide.

Lockheed Martin

Website: www.lockheedmartin.com

Lockheed Martin is a world leader in systems integration and the development of air and missile defense systems and technologies, including the first operational hit-to-kill missile. It also has considerable experience in missile design and production, infrared seekers, command and control/battle management, and communications, precision pointing and tracking optics, as well as radar and signal processing. The company makes significant contributions to all major U.S. missile defense systems and participates in several global missile defense partnerships.

Lockheed Martin achieved the first-ever hit-to-kill intercept in 1984 with the Homing Overlay Experiment, using force of impact alone to destroy a mock warhead outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. Further development and testing produced today’s PAC-3 Missile, which won a competition in 1993 to become the first hit-to-kill interceptor produced by the U.S. government. The PAC-3 Missile has been the technology pathfinder for today’s total conversion to kinetic energy interceptors for all modern missile defense systems.

Currently, the Lockheed Martin-developed Aegis Weapon System, PAC-3 Missile, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System, and the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) utilize this proven advanced technology to deliver lethality against today's most dangerous threats.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2009 sales of $45.2 billion.

Raytheon

Website: www.raytheon.com

Raytheon is a proven global integrator of air and missile defense technologies and systems, delivering innovative and reliable solutions that protect lives and critical infrastructures against current and evolving threats. These solutions include the combat-proven Patriot, HAWK-XXI, SL-AMRAAM (Surface Launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile), as well as the state-of-the-art capabilities offered with our air and missile defense radars and sensors, including the AN/TPY-2, and JLENS.

Raytheon is a world leader in Missile Defense products and solutions, producing Standard Missile-3 and the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle. Raytheon is also working to field new missile defense capabilities such as the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element – an air-launched solution and Stunner – a mobile interceptor. Protecting freedom around the world depends on strong partnerships, and we are an active part of that network.

Raytheon is the prime contractor, both domestic and international, for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense weapon system and the system integrator for the PAC-3 system. Additionally, Raytheon developed and integrated the THAAD radar and communications.

Raytheon Company, with 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 88 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 75,000 people worldwide.

ThalesRaytheonSystems

Website: www.thalesraytheon.com

ThalesRaytheonSystems, a company of 1500 employees, based in Los Angeles (CA, USA) and Paris (France) (85% engineers)

• is the world leading company in Air Defence and has a wide experience in Prime Contracting, Systems of Systems, Architecture, Engineering & Integration and Test & Validation.
• is a leading provider of French, US and NATO System of systems, among them MARTHA (Unique SoS vertically integrating ground-based air C2 systems), C3M NRF (command and control communications Mobile system for NATO Response Force 12), SCCOA (Fixed and mobile components for the French Air Force Air capability, US Battlespace Control System (BCS) and ACCS LOC1 for NATO. All experience related to C2, BMC3 and system integration.
• is a key player of the NATO capability 1 for BMD as part of the SE&I programme (ALTBMD System Engineering and Integration), responsible for system integration aspects and enhancements of ACCS LOC1 to BMD threat. TRS is also selected as Prime Contractor for the next to come Missile Defence applications for the ACCS TMD1 programme (BMC3)

ThalesRaytheonSystems through cooperation with its 2 parent companies, Thales and Raytheon, embraces the overall BMD domain including weapon systems and sensors.

Rheinmetall

Website: www.rheinmetall-detec.de

Rheinmetall Defence’s Air Defence division, headquarters in Switzerland with subsidiaries in Germany, Italy and Canada, is one of the world’s foremost makers of advanced short range air defence systems. The company leads the global market in automatic gun-based air defence, and is the sole system supplier able to offer sensor systems, fire control technology, automatic air defence guns with Ahead airburst ammunition, integrated guided missiles and a full suite of command and control systems – all from a single source.The successful change of the old GBAD paradigm, to engage the platforms before weapon release, to now ordnance based GBAD engagements has been achieved using the latest available technologies. The use of GBAD systems in Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) another Rheinmetall Air Defence speciality, providing coherent command and control allowing to support such delicate missions in peace time environments. The protection of Forward Operating Bases against Rockets and Mortars is the latest addition in an impressive portfolio of inner tier ground based air defence products.