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Boeing, Raytheon Gain Contract Changes To Demonstrate Free Electron Lasers

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Monday, April 20th, 2009

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The Air Force gave contract changes worth $7 million each to The Boeing Co. [BA] and Raytheon Co. [RTN] to work on free electron lasers (FEL), expanding previously awarded fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity order contracts given to the companies last year. Each firm will work on a 100 Kw-Class FEL that can be used to demonstrate scalability of the necessary FEL physics and engineering for an eventual megawatt-class Free Electron Laser device. The companies are expected to complete their work by next…

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