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  • Celeste Mohr: Raytheon, Navy Fire Air-to-Ground Missile in 'Cave Scenario' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Celeste Mohr: Raytheon, Navy Fire Air-to-Ground Missile in ‘Cave Scenario’

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated the Joint Standoff Weapon‘s air-to-ground functions by launching the weapons from aircraft flying at 25,000 feet to hit land targets. During the flight tests, two JSOW II C weapons followed the preplanned routes to reach the simulated cave targets, the company said Thursday. “Naval aviators employed JSOW’s firepower in a tactically realistic cave scenario […] More

  • Taylor Lawrence: Navy Deploys Raytheon-Made Missile Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Taylor Lawrence: Navy Deploys Raytheon-Made Missile Defense System

    The U.S. Navy has begun using a Raytheon-built weapon system designed to intercept ballistic missile threats. Navy personnel deployed the Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptor in collaboration with the Missile Defense Agency, Raytheon said Sunday. “The SM-3 Block IB’s completion of initial operational testing last year set the stage for a rapid deployment to theater,” […] More

  • Raytheon Sponsors Int'l Cybersecurity Forum; Neha Gurnani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Sponsors Int’l Cybersecurity Forum; Neha Gurnani Comments

    Raytheon will host, sponsor and participate in Fleming Gulf‘s Kingdom Cybersecurity Forum on May 12 and 13 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which is expected to highlight the state of cybersecurity and current technologies available in the marketplace. “With Raytheon as the official host and headline sponsor of the forum, participants can expect to learn about future […] More

  • Raytheon to Design Net-Linked Sensors, Radar Tech for Naval Research Lab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Design Net-Linked Sensors, Radar Tech for Naval Research Lab

    Raytheon will help the U.S. Navy design network-linked sensors for the branch’s communication, electronic warfare and surveillance activities under an $8.5 million contract. The Office of Naval Research picked Raytheon to build a flexible distributed array radar technology to detect targets and produce firm-track ranges, Raytheon said Tuesday. ONR wants the FlexDAR system to have […] More

  • Mike Jarrett: Raytheon Completes Multi-Mission Weapon Processor Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Jarrett: Raytheon Completes Multi-Mission Weapon Processor Test

    Raytheon has demonstrated a new multi-function processor for weapon systems through its own research and development funding. A Tomahawk Block IV missile aboard a T-39 aircraft was embedded with the modular processor to monitor and destroy radio-frequency-emitting objects, Raytheon said Monday. “We have assessed our company-funded multi-mission processor at Technical Readiness Level 6, enabling it to […] More

  • Steve Bruce: Lockheed, Raytheon Could Learn Air Force 'Space Fence' Contract Winner by May - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Bruce: Lockheed, Raytheon Could Learn Air Force ‘Space Fence’ Contract Winner by May

    The U.S. Air Force could award a contract by the end of May to either Lockheed Martin or Raytheon for a radar to track debris in low-Earth orbit, a Lockheed vice president told Defense News in a story published Sunday. “The (operational) date would be in 2018 for site 1,” Steve Bruce, VP for advanced systems in Lockheed’s mission systems […] More

  • Raytheon Chairman WIlliam Swanson Inducted Into STEM Leadership Hall of Fame - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Chairman WIlliam Swanson Inducted Into STEM Leadership Hall of Fame

    William Swanson, chairman of Raytheon‘s board of directors, has been inducted into the U.S. News STEM Leadership Hall of Fame for his work to promote STEM education for future engineers and scientists. Swanson received his award at the 2014 U.S. News STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference in Washington, Raytheon announced Friday. “As someone who benefitted from […] More

  • Raytheon Names Winners of Cyber Competition; Jack Harrington Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Names Winners of Cyber Competition; Jack Harrington Comments

    Raytheon has selected the University of Central Florida as the winner of this year’s Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense comptetition held April 25-27 in San Antonio, Texas. The University of Central Florida and nine other universities were tasked to keep a fictional business running while under constant cyber attack, the company announced Sunday. As part […] More

  • Profile: Rob Rabinek, VP, Contracts & Procurement for General Dynamics Information Technology's Intell Solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Profile: Rob Rabinek, VP, Contracts & Procurement for General Dynamics Information Technology’s Intell Solutions

    Rob Rabinek serves as vice president for contracts and procurement for General Dynamics Information Technology’s intelligence solutions division, where the close-to-30-year federal procurement exec manages a number of related administration, compliance and other activities. Rabinek’s portfolio of responsibilities includes: contract, subcontract and government property administration contract compliance and quality assurance procurement export and import compliance […] More

  • Navy Begins Using Raytheon-Built Missile Interceptor; Taylor Lawrence Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Begins Using Raytheon-Built Missile Interceptor; Taylor Lawrence Comments

    The U.S. Navy has kicked off operations on a Raytheon-made missile interceptor system in collaboration with the Missile Defense Agency. The Standard Missile-3 Block IB is built to destroy ballistic missile targets on impact, Raytheon said Wednesday. Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon Missile Systems, said the missile system is intended to help military customers worldwide […] More

  • Raytheon Donates $37K to Promote Engineering in Elementary Schools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Donates $37K to Promote Engineering in Elementary Schools

    Raytheon has selected two schools within the Vail School District to receive a total of $37,000 in scholarship to promote engineering concepts and practices, Arizona Daily Star reported Thursday.  Alexis Huicochea writes that the award is part of the company’s $2 million Engineering is Elementary District Scholarship science, technology, engineering and math program. Under the […] More

  • Raytheon Taps Anaren for Navy Air, Missile Defense Radar Beamformer Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Taps Anaren for Navy Air, Missile Defense Radar Beamformer Tech

    Anaren will provide its beamformer technology to Raytheon under an $8.5 million subcontract for the engineering and manufacturing development stage of Raytheon’s contract to build the U.S. Navy‘s Air and Missile Defense Radar. The one-year subcontract covers work to design and assemble the beamformer and is part of the AMDR program’s potential 10-year, $110 million low-rate initial production […] More