Raytheon Company has been awarded a $29.7 million contract to provide 10 Sonar systems for U.S. Navy helicopters.
The sonar systems are the primary undersea warfare sensor for the MH60R helicopter, providing
mission critical capabilities, including submarine detection, tracking,
localization, classification, acoustic intercept, underwater communication and
environmental data collection.
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Under the contract, Raytheon will provide program management, systems
engineering, configuration management, and materials procurement for the
manufacture, test and integration of the sonar systems, as well as sustaining
and integrated logistics support.
This contract follows the completion of an
earlier low rate initial production contract under which Raytheon produced and
delivered four ALFS systems well ahead of schedule.
Work will be performed at Raytheon’s Naval Integration Center in
Portsmouth.
Raytheon Company, with 2003 sales of $18.1 billion, specializes
in defense and government electronics, space, information technology,
technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With
headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 78,000 people worldwide.
