DULLES, Va., Nov. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon
Company (NYSE: RTN) received a $174.5
million follow-on contract from the U.S. Air Force to
provide field support for high-altitude intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance (ISR) and the Distributed Command Ground System
(DCGS) mission. This is the 15th year that Raytheon has
successfully partnered with the Air Force on this contract, and
ninth year that Raytheon has implemented year-over-year cost
savings.
Since 2005, Raytheon has supported over 14,000 airborne missions
and more than 20,000 ground missions for the Air Force as part of
the Contractor Field Services program. Under this Air Force Warner
Robins Air Logistics Complex contract, the Raytheon-led team
provides around-the-clock contractor field services to the
warfighter at numerous sites around the globe. The contractor
requirements cover a broad range of ground operations support
including:
- system maintenance
- operations training
- pre-flight system checks
- mission support during flights
- post-mission problem analysis
- new system installations and upgrades
In addition to the DCGS mission, the Raytheon team also supports
data processing and dissemination for unmanned system sensors,
ground controls, and data links.
"Our Contractor Field Service representatives offer mission
critical expertise and are intimately familiar with how entire
systems work which allows them to successfully support the
DCGS mission," said Todd Probert,
vice president for the Mission Support and Modernization mission
area at Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services. "Our long
partnership with the Air Force has allowed Raytheon to seamlessly
collaborate with our customer to achieve mission success – we have
reduced cost while maximizing system availability."
DCGS is a worldwide distributed, network centric,
system-of-systems architecture that conducts collaborative
intelligence operations. DCGS provides both physical and electronic
distribution of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data,
processes, and systems.
Find out more about DCGS at
http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/dcgs/.
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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