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Raytheon Counter IED Efforts Gain Traction

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Monday, October 29th, 2007

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By Ann Roosevelt Raytheon [RTN] sees momentum growing from its company-wide effort to counter improvised explosive devices (IED), according to a company executive. "We have had success in some of the products and some of the systems that we have provided to the warfighter," John Costello, vice president of Business Development and Strategic Planning for Raytheon Network Centric Systems based in McKinney, Texas, said in an interview. Costello leads the Raytheon IED Defeat Task Force. It began in September 2006.…

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