Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business entered a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to significantly advance satellite data processing and mission control operations.

According to the press release, Through this effort, Raytheon is equipping customers with the mission-critical space capabilities needed to meet national security objectives.

The collaboration enables Raytheon to identify initiatives for deploying scalable cloud-based solutions using AWS artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) services. Raytheon will leverage AWS to help customers reduce mission costs, increase program flexibility, and accelerate the delivery of capabilities to operations.

"Our customers rely on Raytheon to solve their most complex problems across space, data processing, command and control, and mission management functions," said Erich Hernandez-Baquero, vice president of Space Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance at Raytheon. "This collaboration with AWS empowers our teams to accelerate responsible AI innovation, increase agility while maintaining the highest levels of security, optimize resources, and strengthen systems to drive effective results for our customers."

"This collaboration unites the security, reliability, and higher levels of availability from AWS with Raytheon's space systems expertise to create new possibilities for our customers in the space industry," said David Appel, vice president of U.S. Federal at Amazon Web Services. "This relationship embodies our customer-obsessed approach, driving innovations that boost mission performance, cost efficiency, and operational agility. Together, we're propelling space technology forward, ensuring our customers maintain their competitive edge in this critical domain."

Raytheon and AWS are actively executing programs for government and commercial customers under this agreement.

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