GARLAND, Texas, May 29, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE:
RTN) has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract to continue evolving a
system for the sharing of near real-time, actionable intelligence
information among warfighters.
Known as the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Integration
Backbone (DIB), the next-generation DIB -- DIB 1.3 -- will address
standards compliance, baseline convergence, enterprise interoperability and
unique U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy requirements.
The Web-based DIB is an open service-oriented architecture through
which military analysts and the intelligence communities can collaborate
globally, regardless of their military service affiliation, thereby
enabling joint interoperability. Raytheon first developed the DIB under the
DCGS 10.2 contract for the Air Force and has supported the integration of
the software into existing and emerging systems for the Army and Navy.
"The DIB technology has been successful in providing information
interoperability, and the next evolution of the DIB will ensure successful
integration to fight the war on terror," said Anthony DiFurio, director of
Multi-Intelligence Systems for Raytheon's Intelligence and Information
Systems. "We are looking forward to providing the U.S. military a service
enabling it to integrate its systems with faster efficiency and
effectiveness."
Raytheon developed the DIB roadmap process to logically add
enhancements to the DIB product. The roadmap provides a plan for regular
enhancement cycles of commercial technologies and standards to enable new
features and services in the user community in a rapid and cost-effective
approach. Raytheon will work closely with the government's DIB Management
Office to incorporate the latest inputs from the user community to make it
easier and faster to join the enterprise and share information.
Based in Garland, Texas, Raytheon IIS is a leading provider of
information and intelligence solutions to the government. Raytheon IIS has
annual revenues of approximately $2.7 billion and employs more than 9,000
engineering and technical professionals worldwide.
Raytheon Company, with 2007 sales of $21.3 billion, is a technology
leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 86
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 a
broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham,
Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide.
Note to Editors:
The DIB 1.3 will integrate the latest commercial products with Solaris
10, Oracle 10g and Weblogic 10. The software will enable need-to-know
capabilities, security domain federation, network-centric enterprise
services security, automatic discovery and federation of DIBs.
Contact:
Keith Little
703.849.1675
KDLittle@raytheon.com
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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CONTACT:
Keith Little of Raytheon Company,
+1-703-849-1675, KDLittle@raytheon.com
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