Raytheon Appoints Mike Hoeffler as Vice President for DD(X) Program

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Raytheon Appoints Mike Hoeffler as Vice President for DD(X) Program
    TEWKSBURY, Mass., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Mike Hoeffler has been appointed
vice president of the DD(X) program at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems.
Hoeffler replaces Jack Cronin, who has been named president of Raytheon
Systems Limited (RSL), Raytheon's United Kingdom subsidiary.
    Under the three-year $1.3 billion contract, Raytheon Integrated Defense
Systems serves as the weapon and electronic systems integrator for DD(X) --
the transformational next-generation destroyer for the U.S. Navy that will
revolutionize naval technology for the 21st century.
    Hoeffler joined Raytheon in 1969 as an engineer and then moved into
program management where he managed a number of military, commercial, and
international programs.  He has assumed positions of increasing
responsibility, including vice president of Raytheon's Command Control
Communications and Intelligence (C3I) business with responsibility for
managing Raytheon's worldwide air traffic management business.  He most
recently served as lead for Integrated Defense Systems strategic planning.
Hoeffler has masters' degrees in Electrical Engineering and Engineering
Management from Northeastern University and a bachelor's degree in Electrical
Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
    Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems is teamed with program prime Northrop
Grumman to lead the National Team designing DD(X).  Raytheon is designing,
developing, and building engineering development models of key technologies
that will be tested at-sea during this phase of the program and then
incorporated into DD(X).  Technologies developed for DD(X) will be found on
all major new ship design and construction projects throughout the 21st
century.  Ship construction is expected to begin in 2005.
    Based in Tewksbury, Mass., Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's leader
in mission systems integration.  With a strong international and domestic
customer base including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Armed
Forces, Integrated Defense Systems provides integrated air and missile defense
and naval and maritime warfighting solutions.
    Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2002 sales of $16.8 billion, is an
industry leader in defense, government and commercial electronics, space,
information technology, technical services, and business and special mission
aircraft.  With headquarters in Lexington, Mass., Raytheon employs more than
76,000 people worldwide.

    Contact:
     Chuck Larrabee
     978.858.4259
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