Raytheon′s Annual Raytheon Autonomous Vehicle Competition (AVC) has the mission to partner with universities across 4 different regions to develop top talent, strengthen university relationships, and enhance the Raytheon mission. Raytheon′s AVC is an event sponsored by Raytheon, an RTX business. The purpose of the AVC is to provide students an opportunity to solve existing real-world problems by using their creativity, innovation, and team-solving skills to research, develop, integrate, and test an Unmanned Vehicle system. This team-oriented effort is an opportunity for university students to engage and put in practice their project-management and problem-solving skills on open-ended problems in a professional, industry work environment. For the corporate sponsor, it provides the opportunity to evaluate and assess top graduates, promote corporate branding, and explore the latest technologies. The direct participants of the AVC will be the assigned students, while University faculty and industry mentors act as project guidance / "coach" and do not work on the project itself. Judges will observe the final competition and grade based on performance and requirements met. Judges will not be student mentors.