Raytheon Systems Company Awarded $81.2 Million to Upgrade BMEWS At Clear Air Station, Alaska.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 1998--Raytheon Systems Company's Marlborough, Mass. unit has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract valued at $81.2 million to upgrade the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) at Clear Air Station, Alaska.

Raytheon will replace the existing mechanical radars at the Clear Air Station site with a newer, more supportable solid state phased array radar. The company previously upgraded the BMEWS sites at Thule, Greenland and Fylingdales, England, with phased array radars in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The upgrade at Clear Air Station will include the design and construction by Raytheon Engineers & Constructors of a ten-story, 83,000 square foot technical facility in which the radar electronics will be installed and tested. Work is expected to be completed by October, 2001.

The Air Force Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., is the contracting agency which will administer the firm-fixed-price/award fee contract.

Raytheon Systems Company is a unit of Raytheon Company. With headquarters in Lexington, Mass., Raytheon Company is a global technology leader with world-wide sales of more than US$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.

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