Aircraft
AI Drives Technology for Raytheon Intelligent Sensing
Raytheon’s RAIVEN offers pilots faster and more precise threat identification.
 Raytheon Raiven
Intelligent sensing allows Raytheon’s artificial-­intelligence-driven Raiven to detect a variety of threats based on the smallest pieces of data then share that information with pilots to help speed up engagement decision-making. (Photo: Raytheon)

Raytheon vice president for surveillance and targeting systems Torrey Cady opened a briefing held before the Paris Airshow with a summation of the environment in which today’s warfighters find themselves. “The threat drives capability requirements, and we need new solutions to support multi-domain operations,” he declared.

Cady was speaking about the company’s launch of Raiven, described by the defense conglomerate as a revolutionary electro-optical intelligent-sensing capability that gives pilots faster and more precise threat identification. Designed to identify objects in real-time, Raiven combines both optical and spectral data with artificial intelligence (AI), a new capability for these types of systems.