This Sunday our liaisons from Raytheon Mark, Mitch, Nick, and Byron came up to Gainesville to help us set up our lab environment and install all the software we needed for developing the ECM. We spent the day learning the equipment, installing the right operating systems, and setting up the virtual machines that we will deploy our project to in the future. Since Raytheon’s systems have strict security requirements, all of our work needs to be done on their approved hardware and software systems. Now that we have our lab equipment set up, we hope to begin working on an initial prototype system to display at next week’s prototype inspection day event.

We’re all really glad that our liaisons were able to come up to Gainesville and visit, and we had a really nice time spending the day with them. We learned a lot about the systems in use at Raytheon and the requirements that they are working with for their current ECM systems. We also gained a lot of insight into how the ECMs are used at Raytheon and how they’re used by their clients.