Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $950,000 U.S. Air Force contract to demonstrate improvements to space situational awareness, the company announced Sept. 14.

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems will conduct simulations to assess the information fusion technology and architecture, and study the integration of this capability with available space surveillance and intelligence systems. The Object Centric Intelligent Agents technology demonstrations will be conducted at the Air Force Maui High Performance Computing Center through July 2008.

Raytheon described the program as significant to “determining the approach for accomplishing the Air Force’s mission of being able to identify, track and determine the behavior of all space objects in Earth orbit.”