Raytheon's Enhanced Coyote UAV Flies into Hurricanes for NOAA

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• Coyote is an expendable UAS deployed from an A-size sonobuoy tube or common launch tube to perform intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions while the host craft remains at a safe distance.
• Coyote was developed by Sensintel, Inc., which was acquired in January 2015 by Raytheon Missile Systems.
• Coyote features:
  • Performs surveillance imagery, targeting capability, real-time damage assessment
  • Designed to save lives and reduce operational costs
  • Suitable for targeting  assistance, perimeter security, and research missions

About NOAA

NOAA's mission is to understand and predict changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and to conserve and manage our coastal and marine resources

About Raytheon

Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of $23 billion and 61,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, civil government and cybersecurity markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 93 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 cybersecurity and a broad range of mission support services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass.

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