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Army

Raytheon Counter-IED TF Forges Ahead–Discovers Disruptive Technologies

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Monday, October 6th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt Raytheon's [RTN] Counter-IED Task Force, which crosses the breadth of the company, continues to find ideas and technologies to help solve the IED problem, and along the way is discovering some game changing technologies, according to a company official. "As of May we had about 200 ideas coming in to solve the problem--some don't pan out, some morph into other things," said Jack Costello, vice president of Business Development and Strategic Planning for Raytheon's Network Centric Systems…

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