DULLES, Va., Oct. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company
(NYSE: RTN) in partnership with the U.S. Army has held five million
training events while saving $400
million in costs on the Warfighter Field Operations Customer
Support (FOCUS) contract since 2008.
Raytheon leads the Warrior Training Alliance (WTA), a team of
more than 150 companies that conducts training and provides global
sustainment services for the U.S. Army. That includes 92 digital
training ranges and more than 250,000 training aids, devices,
simulators and simulations.
"Reaching these unprecedented milestones was only possible as a
result of the investments Raytheon has made in information systems,
technology and logistics capabilities; our partnership with the WTA
companies; and our domain knowledge as one of the Department of
Defense's largest training partners," said Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon
Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS).
Raytheon has demonstrated through the Warfighter FOCUS program
that training can be effectively and competitively delivered using
an integrator model, Wajsgras added. "And we are very proud
that 32 cents of every dollar spent
on this contract has gone to small businesses," he said.
The milestone of five million training events was reached in
August, and included soldiers who were trained on the Army's
digital ranges, as well as in Combat Training Centers, posts and
stations around the world. The $400
million in savings was achieved by eliminating redundancies,
cross-leveling resources, and cross-training personnel on
maintaining and operating the Army's training aids, devices,
simulators and simulations.
The company also helped to make training support more
predictable and collaborative by developing and deploying its
Automated Toolset for Lifecycle Activities and Services Management
Information System (ATLAS MIS). ATLAS MIS tracks more than 30
million Army spare and repair parts every day, while linking more
than 6,000 users across 400 sites around the world with the same
real-time, metric-driven information to provide accurate program
situational awareness.
The recent NATO Exercise Swift Response 15 was directly
supported by the Raytheon-led WTA. This exercise included the
largest airborne drills held in Europe since end of the Cold War, with more
than 5,000 troops from 11 NATO allies taking part in exercises
across Germany, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania. A high point of the exercise came on
Aug. 26 when more than 1,000
paratroopers executed a simulated combat airborne assault at the
Hohenfels training area in Germany. The WTA provides life-cycle
maintenance, operations and sustainment at Hohenfels.
More information about the Raytheon-led Warfighter FOCUS
contract can be found here, and Raytheon's high-consequence
training approach can be found here.
About Raytheon
Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of
$23 billion and 61,000 employees
worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in
defense, civil government and cybersecurity markets throughout the
world. With a history of innovation spanning 93 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 cybersecurity 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.
Media Contacts
Raytheon
Jo-Anne Sears
571.250.1914
iispr@raytheon.com
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