RESTON, Va., Aug. 8, 2005 /PRNewswire/ -- A subsidiary of Raytheon Company
(NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a task order with a potential value of $82.1
million by the United States Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to provide
Mission Support in the former Soviet Union (FSU).
Through this six-year task order, which has a base year and five one-year
options, Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC) will provide
comprehensive logistics integration support, including equipment support and
services, program support services, infrastructure services, an enterprise
information management system, and program management. Work will be performed
in FSU countries, primarily in the Russian Federation.
This effort is part of the U.S. government's Cooperative Threat Reduction
(CTR) Program that assists successor states of the FSU in reducing their
stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and the infrastructure supporting
them. Work on the task order, under DTRA's IDIQ (indefinite delivery,
indefinite quantity) CTR Integrating Contracts (CTRIC) Program, is expected to
be completed by July 2011.
"Since 1994 Raytheon has provided Mission Support to cooperative threat
reduction projects involving logistics, transportation, storage, dismantling,
safeguarding and destroying weapons of mass destruction in the FSU," said Dan
Schultz, RTSC vice president and general manager of one of RTSC's Reston, Va.-
based business units. "RTSC is proud of its historic CTR performance, and we
look forward to continuing our successful partnership with DTRA to prevent the
spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction to make
the world a safer place."
RTSC has been helping DTRA enhance global security since 1988, supporting
the Department of Defense's cooperative efforts with countries of the former
Soviet Union. RTSC also provides DTRA with: elimination of strategic bombers
and air-to-surface missiles in Ukraine; elimination of SS-25 missiles and
launchers; assistance in the transportation of nuclear warheads in Russia to
safe, secure storage sites; monitoring of an intercontinental ballistic
missile final assembly plant in Russia; logistics services to CTR equipment;
and transportation of CTR cargo via air and sea to the former Soviet Union.
DTRA safeguards America's interests from weapons of mass destruction by
controlling and reducing the threat to the United States and its allies and
providing quality tools and services for the warfighter. This Department of
Defense combat support agency is located at Fort Belvoir, Va., and operates
field offices worldwide.
RTSC provides technology solutions for defense, federal and commercial
customers worldwide. It specializes in Mission Support, engineering product
solutions and engineering service solutions. Mission Support-Raytheon's
integrated approach to providing total life-cycle support, predicting customer
needs, sensing problems and proactively applying solutions-enables Raytheon to
maintain readiness and deliver operational capability on demand, enhancing
customer mission success.
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2004 sales of $20.2 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.
Note to Editors:
CTRIC is a multiple-award IDIQ contract with a $5 billion ceiling. As one
of five awardees on the 10-year contract, which includes a five-year base
period and one five-year option, Raytheon supports the U.S. government in
eliminating weapons of mass destruction and their supporting infrastructures.
Contact:
Kristen Giddens Pinto-Coelho
703.295.2535
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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CONTACT:
Kristen Giddens Pinto-Coelho of Raytheon
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