LaBarge Inc.

LaBarge Inc. (labarge.com) won $8 million in contracts from Raytheon Missile Systems Raytheon Missile Systems Company is a subsidiary of Raytheon Company. Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, its president is Louise Francesconi. Formerly, known as Hughes Missile Systems Company before acquired by Raytheon Company

The division's products include:

(raytheon.com) to provide cable assemblies and an integrated firing unit assembly for the Tactical Tomahawk tomahawk [from an Algonquian dialect of Virginia], hatchet generally used by Native North Americans as a hand weapon and as a missile. The earliest tomahawks were made of stone, with one edge or two edges sharpened (sometimes the stone was globe shaped). cruise missile cruise missile, low-flying, continuously powered offensive missile designed to evade defense systems. Although the German V-1 (1944) was a simple cruise missile, the cruise missile did not realize its potential until the 1970s, when the United States sought to . The company anticipates follow-on orders. Production will take place at LaBarge's Joplin, MO, and Huntsville, AK, facilities and is expected to continue through October 2007.

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