LEXINGTON – Raytheon Co. has filed a protest in connection with a plan by aviation regulators to hold a competition for an air-traffic control contract worth as much as $1 billion, the company said. The protest threatens to stall a modernization of control centers for high-altitude planes that has already been delayed by a year, said a statement from Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon’s competitor for the project, Bloomberg News reported.
The protest comes two weeks before the companies are supposed to submit initial design plans to the Federal Aviation Administration for the project that the FAA once planned to give to Lockheed Martin without competition. Raytheon filed a protest on March 29 with the FAA’s Office of Dispute Resolution, the same office where Raytheon protested the single-contract award plans last year, Raytheon spokeswoman Blanche Necessary said. "That’s all we can say at this point," she said.
Lockheed said in a statement the protest has no merit. FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said the agency has scheduled a teleconference Friday with Raytheon, the third largest U.S. defense contractor by sales, and Lockheed Martin, the largest defense contractor. The agency and companies will discuss how to proceed, she said.
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