TEWKSBURY, Mass., Nov. 20, 2006 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE:
RTN) delivered the first four engineering development models of the
Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) to the Department of Homeland Security
Nov. 14, four months after the initial contract award.
    "This is a tremendous effort by our Raytheon-led ASP team in a very
rapid response to an urgent and critical homeland security need," said Mary
Petryszyn, Raytheon vice president of Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems'
Joint Battlespace Integration business team.
    Advanced spectroscopic portals are panel-like devices that contain
detectors used to screen people, cars, trucks and containers for illicit
radioactive materials at some of the more than 600 ports of entry into the
United States. This new generation of portals is needed to improve
discrimination between innocent and threat materials, which will reduce the
number of false alarms compared to the first generation of screening
portals currently in place.
    Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's leader in Joint Battlespace
Integration providing affordable, integrated solutions to a strong
international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile
Defense Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland
Security.
    Raytheon Company, with 2005 sales of $21.9 billion, is an industry
leader in defense and government electronics, space, information
technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft.
With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 80,000 people
worldwide.
    Contact:
    Guy Shields
    978.858.5246

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