DULLES, Va., Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon
Company (NYSE: RTN) and its partner team have realized savings of
$300 million in the six years they
have performed the $11.2B Warfighter
Field Operations Customer Support (FOCUS) contract, the company
announced today.
As leader of the Warrior Training Alliance (WTA), a group of
more than 150 partner companies that was awarded the contract in
2008, Raytheon has served as single integrator, eliminating
redundancies and creating efficiencies to effect the savings. The
result: $300 million less spent by
the customer on the core contract, which primarily covered
maintaining training aids, devices, simulators, and simulations for
the U.S. Army.
"During the two longest wars in American history, Raytheon has
provided proven, responsive and extremely cost-effective training
support while helping to ensure the highest levels of U.S. Army
readiness globally," said Bob
Williams, Raytheon Global Training Solutions vice
president.
The Warfighter FOCUS contract consolidates the U.S. Army's live,
virtual and constructive training domains to increase the
effectiveness of training delivery and realize significant
savings.
In addition to reducing costs, Raytheon helped to make training
support more predictable, collaborative and better coordinated
through its proprietary Automated Tool for Lifecycle Analysis and
Support (ATLAS) Management Information System, which provides the
customer, end users and other stakeholders real-time, metric-driven
information and accurate program situational awareness.
The Raytheon-led WTA has conducted more than 1.4 million
training events, including Exercise Scarlet Response in July, which
tested hundreds of first responders working with the nation's only
Chemical Biological Incident Response force. The contract
team also successfully processed more than 5,700 task orders,
averaging more than 2.5 task orders per day.
Raytheon and the WTA provide services that extend the core
contract to include world-wide, comprehensive training support,
from direct support to the U.S. Army's Combat Training Centers in
the United States to specialty
training in overseas locations like Germany, Korea and Afghanistan, to Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
operator and maintenance instruction for the U.S. Army.
Customer support is provided 24/7 through the Customer Support
Operations Center located in Orlando,
Fla., and the Warfighter Support Center, a central
maintenance depot and shipping center in Louisville, Ky.
Through Warfighter FOCUS, Raytheon and the WTA help train U.S.
Army soldiers, allied and coalition partners around the world, and
maintain more than 240,000 training aids, devices and simulators.
Click here to learn more about the Raytheon-led Warfighter FOCUS
program.
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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