RESTON, Va., May 18, 2005 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert (Bob) E. Davis has been named vice president and general manager of Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC (RTSC) Depot Operations in Norfolk, Va.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050518/NEW010 )

Reporting to RTSC President Bryan J. Even, Davis assumes responsibility for all aspects of growth, program execution, customer relationship management, and continuous improvement in the Depot Operations business.

Davis was formerly the business development growth leader for Raytheon Integrated Defense System (IDS) in the Tidewater region of Virginia, area, where he was responsible for identification of growth opportunities for IDS programs, products and services, and front-end customer interface. Prior to joining IDS, Davis led the Domestic and International Aircraft Carrier Product Line for the former Raytheon Naval and Maritime Integrated Systems business. In this role, he had overall responsibility for product line execution and strategy, associated with aircraft carrier products and services.

Davis has more than 22 years of U.S. Naval service, leadership, management, and flight experience, which includes command tours during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and operations in Bosnia. He holds a bachelor's degree in marketing management from the University of Dayton.

RTSC provides technology solutions for defense, federal and commercial customers worldwide. It specializes in mission support, engineering product solutions and engineering service solutions. Mission support -- Raytheon's integrated approach to predicting customer needs, sensing problems and applying solutions -- enables Raytheon to maintain readiness and deliver operational capability on demand, allowing our customers to focus on their missions.

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:
   Kristin Patterson Jones
   703.295.2534

Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050518/NEW010 AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org/ PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com SOURCE: Raytheon Company

Web site: http://www.raytheon.com/