Raytheon Awarded First Phase of Army's Integrated Battle Command System

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Raytheon Awarded First Phase of Army's Integrated Battle Command System
    TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 6, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE:
RTN) has won the first stage of a competitive, multi-phase U.S. Army award
for the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS).

    IBCS is a U.S. Army development program with a modular, open
architecture, "system of systems" construct allowing air and missile
defense warfighters to use any sensor and any shooter within an integrated
fire control network.

    The Raytheon-led team was formed using OpenAIR(TM), Raytheon's open
business model which uses the best of large and small business and academia
to provide the best value solution. The team includes industry partners
General Dynamics, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Davidson Technologies, IBM,
Carlson Technologies, as well as academic partners, and is scaled for
expansion.

    Air and missile defense systems included in the IBCS program
architecture are weapon and sensor systems already developed/produced by
Raytheon, including: the Patriot air and missile defense system, JLENS
(Joint Land-Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System),
SLAMRAAM (Surface-Launched Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Missile), the
Sentinel Radar, and the THAAD (Terminal High-Altitude Air Defense) radar.

    A significant contributor to Raytheon Team IBCS' design is the
company's state-of-the-art simulation and demonstration environment known
as JFires (Joint Force Interoperability and Requirements Evaluations
SupraCenter) which helps develop, test, and evaluate joint warfighter
capabilities in a highly cost-effective manner.

    "Our open-architecture, command-and-control design for IBCS meets the
warfighting needs of the air and missile defense soldier," said Dan Kirby,
Raytheon's director and program leader for system of systems who led Team
IBCS. "Our design is scalable and tailored to support the multi-mission
warfighting needs of every formation from a large battalion to a platoon."

    "What sets us apart from the competition is our intimate knowledge of
the various weapon systems within the IBCS architecture," said John Urias,
vice president of Force Application Programs for Raytheon Integrated
Defense Systems.

    Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's leader in Global Capabilities
Integration providing affordable, integrated solutions to a broad
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 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 more
than 85 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.



    Contact:
    Jim Keller
    256.542.4051
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