Raytheon Awarded $47.1 Million in Patriot Contracts.LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1998--Raytheon Systems Company, a unit of Raytheon Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :RTNA RTNA Ring Tone No Answer )(NYSE:RTNB RTNB Radio Television Nationale du Burundi (Africa) RTNB Return the Next Bit (computers) ), recently received five contracts from the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Command Missile Command is a 1980 arcade game by Atari Inc. that was also licensed to Sega for European release. The plot of Missile Command is simple: the player's six cities are being attacked by an endless hail of ballistic missiles, some of them even splitting like (AMCOM AMCOM Aviation and Missile Command (US Army) ), Redstone Arsenal Redstone Arsenal, U.S. rocket research and development center, 38,781 acres (15,694 hectares), N Ala., W of Huntsville; est. 1941. One of the state's largest industrial enterprises, it includes the Army Missile Command, responsible for the army's rocket and guided , Ala., totaling $47.1 million in support of the Patriot air defense system. The first two awards, which total roughly $23.65 million, are contract modifications to the fiscal year 1998 engineering services contract that provide additional level-of-effort support to the U.S. Army AMCOM, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. , Japan, and The Netherlands.
This contract provides support in the areas of system and software
engineering, quality assurance, configuration management, system
testing, program management and logistics. Work will be performed in
Bedford, Burlington and Tewksbury, Mass; Huntsville, Ala; Orlando, Fla;
El Paso, Texas, and Saudi Arabia, and is expected to be completed by
January 31, 1999.The third award, which totals approximately $13.15 million, is a contract modification for Patriot Sweep V Mod Kits and associated spares for the United States, The Netherlands, Kuwait and Israel. These kits provide various system performance, reliability and operational upgrades to the Patriot Radar, Engagement Control Station, and Information Coordination Central. Work will be performed in Andover, Mass., and Virginia Beach, Va., and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2004. The fourth award, which totals $4.98 million, is a contract to begin low rate initial production (LRIP LRIP Low Rate Initial Production LRIP Limited Rate Initial Production LRIP Logistics Readiness Improvement Program ), which is required to provide various kits and concurrent spares to support the integration of Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) hardware into the Patriot Radar, Launching Station and Engagement Control Station. The PAC-3 Missile Segment Integration LRIP program consists of nine engineering change proposal modifications which, when incorporated, will allow the existing Patriot Weapon System to select and launch PAC-3 missiles while maintaining Patriot Configuration 2 performance. Work will be performed in Andover, Bedford, Waltham, and Tewksbury, Mass; Raytheon Canada, Ltd., Waterloo, Ontario; and, White Sands Missile Range White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), formerly known as the White Sands Proving Grounds, is a rocket range in New Mexico operated by the United States Army. The range covers an area of almost 3,200 mi² (8 287 km²), approximately three times the size of Rhode Island, making it , N.M. The last award, which totals $5.37 million, is a contract to provide for the generation and update of Patriot technical manuals and repair parts and special tools lists to reflect production hardware and software configuration changes. Work will be performed in Burlington and Bedford, Mass., and is expected to be completed by March 31, 1999. The contract contains options valued at $6.9 million, which, if exercised, would extend it until March 31, 2000. Raytheon Company, based in Lexington, Mass., is a global technology leader, with worldwide sales of more than $20 billion and more than 118,000 employees. The company provides state-of-the-art 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.
CONTACT: Raytheon Company
Dave Shea, (703) 284-4245
http://www.raytheon.com
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