TEWKSBURY, Mass., July 28, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon
Company (NYSE: RTN) signed a Letter of Intent with Poland's TELDAT to cooperate in mutually
beneficial business opportunities related to Poland's air defense architecture, as well as
significant exports to global markets. The companies will examine
areas for partnership in the following categories:
- IP-based networking solutions, software and devices
- Militarized communications equipment
- Command and control software
- System integration, verification and validation testing
"TELDAT and Raytheon have been working together for more than
two years, and we are actively pursuing business opportunities with
them in electromechanical design, software engineering and
overarching systems engineering," said Mike
Shaughnessy, vice president of Supply Chain, Raytheon
Integrated Defense Systems. "This is yet another example of our
commitment to deliver significant and sustainable benefits to
Poland's defense industry,
including work share, co-development, co-production and technology
transfer."
"We are pleased to cooperate with Raytheon given that our
companies, working in the field of advanced military technologies,
have so much in common from high ethical standards to highly
specialized engineering staff," said Henryk
Kruszynski, Ph.D., CEO of TELDAT Company. "Realization of
joint projects creates many opportunities not only for TELDAT and
Raytheon, but also for Poland.
With our experience and superior products, we will provide
important contributions to the next generation of Patriot."
This announcement comes just weeks after Poland's Armaments Inspectorate selected
Raytheon's Patriot as one of the two finalists for the WISLA
program.
About TELDAT
TELDAT is a Polish business
entity, located in Bydgoszcz, which has been dynamically operating
in the defense market for 17 years. It is the leading constructor
and producer of the world's most innovative data communications
solutions, which are dedicated mostly to security and national
defense. Its products (hardware and software) and services have
successfully been used and tested in:
- Several hundred garrisons, military units and institutions as
well as in military missions overseas in: Afghanistan, Congo, Chad,
the Balkans and the Baltic states, in which they facilitated air
force assignment completion under the Air Policing mission;
- The most important exercises and trainings (in Europe and USA) carried out by Polish armed forces, NATO
and U.S. European Command, e.g. International Interoperability
Workshops "Combined Endeavor", NATO CWID and NATO CWIX and Bold
Quest;
- Research and development laboratories, e.g. NATO Communications
and Information Agency in Hague
and CELAR in France.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2013
sales of $24
billion and 63,000 employees worldwide, is a
technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, security
and civil markets throughout the world. With a history of
innovation spanning 92 years, Raytheon provides
state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other
capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command,
control, communications and intelligence systems, as well
as cyber security and a broad range of mission support
services. Raytheon is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more about Raytheon, visit
us at www.raytheon.com and follow us on Twitter
@Raytheon.
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