RESTON, Va., Nov. 3. /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been
awarded an additional $59 million to its Global Broadcast Service (GBS)
contract by the U.S. Air Force's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom, AFB,
Mass., extending services through December 2005. Raytheon will perform the
work at various customer sites with management and administrative support out
of its Reston, Va., facility.
"Raytheon looks forward to developing and supplying hardware and software
system upgrades to fully transition the existing architecture to the latest
DoD-directed and computer industry Internet Protocol 4 standard," said Guy
Dubois, vice president of Information Management and Dissemination Systems for
Raytheon.
Raytheon's work on the contract will focus on engineering, production,
logistics, and operational support to upgrade the existing Air Force GBS
satellite communications, deployed worldwide, to all of the U.S. military
services. The system, operational after the events on Sept. 11, 2001, provides
high capacity broadcast products including audio, video, files, and Web
services.
Raytheon Company, 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 Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs more than 76,000 people
worldwide.
Contact
Darci Bushey
703.849.1568
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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