TEWKSBURY, Mass., Dec. 19, 2006 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $15 million U.S. Army contract to support HAWK Theater Readiness Monitoring Facilities (TRMF).

This contract award provides follow-on TRMF support to 12 HAWK missile international users, to include engineering, training and materiel support, to sustain missile readiness.

"We continue to work with many nations on ways to improve capabilities of their deployed HAWK systems," said Skip Garrett, vice president of International Operations. "This contract ensures HAWK will provide a cost- effective air defense solution well into the 21st century."

Work will be led from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems' TRMF Support Center, located at the Integrated Air Defense Center, Andover, Mass.

Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's leader in Joint Battlespace Integration providing affordable, integrated solutions to a broad international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland Security.

Raytheon Company, with 2005 sales of $21.9 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:
  Guy Shields
  978.858.5246

SOURCE: Raytheon Company

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