WALTHAM, Mass., March 14, 2005  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Raytheon Company
(NYSE: RTN) has appointed Pamela A. Wickham, 42, as vice president
communications and corporate affairs effective March 14, 2005.  Most recently
Wickham was vice president, corporate communications for the Hewlett Packard
Company.

    Prior to Hewlett Packard, Wickham was executive vice president for GE
Healthcare, headquartered in the UK.  While with GE, she also had assignments
as merchandising and brand manager for GE Plastics, corporate public relations
manager with the GE corporate office and general manager for global
communications at GE Medical.  Earlier in her professional career Wickham was
an account executive in New York with Porter Novelli Public Relations and
Ketchum Public Relations.

    Wickham earned a bachelor's degree in English with a minor in journalism
at the University of Oklahoma.

    Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2004 sales of $20.2 billion, is an
industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information
technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft.
With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 80,000 people worldwide.

  Contact:
   James Fetig
   781-522-5111


SOURCE: Raytheon Company



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