WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been
awarded the Information Dissemination Services-Direct Delivery (IDS-D)
program, valued at $203 million, for the National Imagery and Mapping Agency
(NIMA).
IDS-D is an automated, high performance delivery system that includes
smart information push, support data services and profile management, and an
innovative data compression and format conversion process that allows delivery
of user requested information on time. During the past nine months, Raytheon
worked directly with government personnel and support contractors to refine
program requirements and design a dissemination architecture to support future
needs of the intelligence community.
"IDS-D is an important system that will help NIMA successfully execute its
vision of guaranteeing the information edge," said Mike Keebaugh, vice
president and general manager of Raytheon's Imagery and Geospatial Systems
business unit. "IDS-D provides an unprecedented capability for NIMA to
satisfy high priority information needs from its user community," Keebaugh
said.
IDS-D receives, profiles, processes and directs large volumes of data at
multiple security levels and provides timely, relevant, and accurate imagery
and imagery intelligence information to the armed services and intelligence
community. IDS-D is a key element of the United States Imagery and Geospatial
Information Service (USIGS), an extensive network of systems used by the
Department of Defense and the intelligence community to share and exploit
imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial information.
With headquarters in Lexington, Mass., Raytheon Company is a global
technology leader in defense, government and commercial electronics, and
business and special mission aircraft.
Contact:
Amy Ochs
972.205.7490
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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CONTACT:
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