Raytheon wins $567 million Army contract for chemical weapons destruction.LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1996--Raytheon Engineers & Constructors announced today that it has received a $567 million contract from the U.S. Army to construct and operate a chemical weapons destruction facility in Umatilla, Ore. The facility will be built at the Umatilla Army Depot in northeastern Oregon. Under the contract, Raytheon will perform overall management of the project, as well as construction, equipment procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. , start-up, operations and maintenance, and ultimately closure of the facility. Raytheon Demilitarization de·mil·i·ta·rize tr.v. de·mil·i·ta·rized, de·mil·i·ta·riz·ing, de·mil·i·ta·riz·es 1. To eliminate the military character of. 2. Company, a unit of Raytheon Engineers & Constructors, will perform the work and use Raytheon Constructors Inc. for the facility construction. Project duration is nine years. The Umatilla Army Depot stores 11.6 percent of the approximately 25,000 tons of chemical weapons in the U.S. stockpile stock·pile n. A supply stored for future use, usually carefully accrued and maintained. tr.v. stock·piled, stock·pil·ing, stock·piles To accumulate and maintain a supply of for future use. . Raytheon currently operates the Army's Johnston Atoll Johnston Atoll, atoll, 2.8 sq mi (7.25 sq km), central Pacific, c.700 nautical mi (1,300 km) SW of Honolulu, central Pacific, an uninc. territory of the United States. It consists of four islands and reefs. The largest island, Johnston Island, c. Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS JACADS Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System ) facility in the Pacific -- the world's first full-scale chemical weapons destruction facility. This facility has destroyed more than 2.5 million pounds of chemical agents during the past six years, and its employees have worked more than two million hours without a lost-time accident. "We are pleased to continue our close association with the U.S. Army in the destruction of the nation's chemical weapons," said Fred Hissong, president of Raytheon Demilitarization Company. "We've been extremely successful at the JACADS facility on Johnston Atoll, and we will bring to Umatilla an excellent safety and environmental consciousness, as well as a trained and tested team of highly knowledgeable operators and managers." Raytheon Engineers & Constructors is a major full-service engineering and construction firm serving clients worldwide. It is one of the four business segments of Raytheon Company, a $12.3 billion international high technology company that also operates in the commercial and defense electronics, aircraft, and major appliances A major appliance is usually defined as a large machine which accomplishes some routine housekeeping task, which includes purposes such as cooking, food preservation, or cleaning, whether in a household, institutional, commercial or industrial setting. industries. CONTACT: Raytheon Ed Powers Ed Powers (born Mark Krinsky October 25, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is a director and producer of hardcore pornographic films. He is best known for his Dirty Debutantes (617) 860-2415 |
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