Raytheon Awarded $33 Million NASA Goddard Contract.

LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 1999--Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTNA, RTNB) has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to continue its work at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Science Data Operations Office in Greenbelt, Md. The contract is valued at $33 million over a five-year period.

Raytheon Systems Company will help operate four branches within the Space Science Data Operations Office: the National Space Science Data Center, Space Physics Data Facility, Astrophysics Data Facility and Operating Satellites Project. These organizations perform space data operations activities ranging from managing selected operating spacecraft to developing and operating data and information systems that support processing, management, archiving, and distribution of space physics, astrophysics, and planetary physics data and information.

"We are pleased to continue working in partnership with the Space Science Data Operations Office to be the steward of the nation's space science data into the 21st century," said Phil LePore, a vice president of Raytheon Company and Raytheon Systems Company executive vice president and general manager of the Training and Services segment. "This award demonstrates Goddard's recognition of our capabilities and experience in information technology solutions and services. We look forward to helping Goddard to meet its scientific data systems challenges."

Over the next five years, Raytheon will continue to manage an unprecedented volume of data, in a range of tens of terabytes (trillion bytes of information), that will be generated by NASA's space science missions. The Raytheon team includes QSS Group, REI Systems, SGT and the Astronautics Company L.P., which together with Raytheon, will also develop advanced procedures for data archiving, management and dissemination that will enable efficient and electronic access by scientists, researchers, students, educators and the general public.

Raytheon Company, based in Lexington, Mass., is a global technology leader that provides products and services in the areas of commercial and defense electronics, engineering and construction, and business and special mission aircraft. Raytheon has operations throughout the United States and serves customers in more than 80 countries around the world.