Raytheon Technologies Leverages Merger Synergies To Mount Bid For FAA Network Transformation

Raytheon Technologies Leverages Merger Synergies To Mount Bid For FAA Network Transformation

The Federal Aviation Administration has begun the next phase of national airspace modernization with an ambitious project to transform its information systems and networks.



The project is called the FAA Enterprise Network Services (FENS), and it would replace a telecommunications system that the agency has been relying on for 20 years.



FENS is the cornerstone of future airspace modernization, the information framework required to implement digital integration of an aviation ecosystem that covers five million square miles of domestic airspace and an additional 24 million square miles of oceanic airspace.



It is also an early opportunity for Raytheon Technologies

RTX

, the merged aerospace operations of Raytheon and United Technologies

UTX

, to begin unlocking the synergies inherent in their new enterprise.









The Potomac Consolidated TRACON at Warrenton, Virgina. The enterprise network required to support ... [+] FAA operations in the future will likely evolve continuously, and in ways that require maximum flexibility.



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I laid out the logic of the combination in an April 2 commentary for Forbes, but like FENS, Raytheon Technologies is a new feature on the aviation landscape that will take some time for stakeholders to fully