TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 13, 2005 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE:
RTN) has been awarded a $52 million U.S. Navy contract to provide engineering
services for the Relocatable Over the Horizon Radar (ROTHR) Program.
The award is a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract
to provide continuing engineering support on the radar systems, including both
hardware and software maintenance and upgrades.
"This contract reflects the excellent ongoing relationship between the
Navy and Raytheon, as well as Raytheon's commitment to satisfying our
customer's critical needs for assured technical and program support," said
Mary Petryszyn, Raytheon vice president, Joint Battlespace Integration. "We
are proud that the Navy continues to look to Raytheon for reliable products
and service to ensure our homeland is safe."
ROTHR is a high frequency radar system designed, built, operated and
maintained by Raytheon to provide long range surveillance capability to the
U.S. government in support of the U.S. counter drug mission. Demonstrated
performance, cost effectiveness and growth potential have led to planning for
an expanding role for ROTHR to include surveillance capability for homeland
defense.
"As an operational and deployed asset with ground-based results, ROTHR is
a reliable and cost effective, proven solution for improving the security of
the U.S. coastline," said Petryszyn.
ROTHR has been operational with the U.S. government for more than 15
years, supporting the counter drug mission in the Caribbean Sea and South
America. Each radar system provides in excess of 4 million square miles of
coverage area. The networked system of ROTHR radars operates 24/7/365 and
tracks 4.5 million aircraft per year. It is currently the U.S. government's
primary surveillance system for the counter drug mission.
Raytheon has provided full life cycle mission support for the radars since
the initial installations to improve performance and reliability as part of
Raytheon's integrated approach to predicting customer needs, sensing problems
and preemptively applying solutions. Mission support enables Raytheon to
maintain readiness and deliver operational capability on demand, allowing our
customers to focus on their mission.
Work will be performed by Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems personnel at
Sudbury, Mass., and at the ROTHR site in Chesapeake, Va.
Based in Tewksbury, Mass., Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's leader
in joint battlespace 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 a wide spectrum of integrated air
and missile defense and naval and maritime warfighting solutions.
Raytheon Company, 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.
Contact:
Guy Shields
978.858.5246
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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