TEWKSBURY, Mass., Dec. 21, 2005 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE:
RTN) has been awarded a $7.1 million U.S. Navy contract to provide NATO
SEASPARROW depot support.
The contract calls for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) to
provide Performance Based Logistics (PBL), repairs, manufacturing, test and
delivery of NATO SEASPARROW replacement parts for the Naval Inventory Control
Point (NAVICP) in Mechanicsburg, Pa. This is a sole source order issued under
year 3 of the NATO SEASPARROW PBL contract. There are two option years
remaining on the contract. Years four and five are valued at approximately
$7.7 million and $8.3 million, respectively.
The PBL contract gives IDS direct responsibility for receiving,
warehousing and tracking government furnished property while meeting delivery
and performance metrics. In addition, this PBL contract gives Raytheon IDS
direct responsibility for administering and supplying all NATO SEASPARROW
technical support for U.S. Navy and Foreign Military Sales Cooperative
Logistics Service Supply Agreement customers.
"In Raytheon IDS, our commitment includes focusing on customer needs
throughout the product life cycle," said Dan Martin, vice president, IDS
Surveillance & Sensor Systems. "This means helping to extend the life of our
systems with product upgrades and reducing life cycle costs with whole life
services and support."
Contract support will be performed at Raytheon IDS' Surveillance and
Sensors Center in Sudbury, Mass., IDS' Integrated Air Defense Center in
Andover, Mass., and at Raytheon Technical Services Company in Norfolk, 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.
Notes to Editors.
Rear Admiral Michael S. Roesner is the Commander of NAVICP, which is one
of the Naval Supply Systems Command's (NAVSUP) field activities. NAVICP
procures, manages, and supplies spare parts of Naval aircraft, submarines and
ships worldwide. NAVICP is responsible for more than 400,000 items of supply,
$21 billion of inventory and annual sales of $4.2 billion. It has two
locations: one in the Lawncrest section of Northeast Philadelphia and the
other in Mechanicsburg, just outside Harrisburg, Pa.
NATO SEASPARROW, the forerunner of the Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM),
is one of the world's most widely deployed ship self-defense systems.
Contact:
Guy Shields
978.858.5246
SOURCE Raytheon Company
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CONTACT:
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