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DNDO Awards Raytheon SORDS Contract

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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

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Raytheon [RTN] has received a six-month, $2.9 million contract from the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), to begin developing a Stand-Off Radiation Detection System (SORDS). The contract, which was actually awarded last fall but announced by Raytheon in December, has a potential value of $9.8 million if three additional options are exercised. DNDO also awarded General Electric [GE], the Naval Research Laboratory and Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] SORDS contracts in the fall (TR2, Oct. 17, 2007). Due to proprietary…

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