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Raytheon Awarded Patriot Missile, Engineering Work

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Thursday, April 28th, 2011

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Raytheon [RTN] was awarded a $128.5 million contract to provide engineering services for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense System, and awarded a $58.3 million contract to upgrade Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC) 2 missiles to the Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical (GEM-T) missiles. Issued by the Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), the engineering services contract calls for Raytheon to continue to provide the latest upgrades and system capabilities through systems analysis, software and hardware engineering, and testing and logistics support to…

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