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Business/Financial

Raytheon Gets $24 Million Contract To Provide Military Wireless Network Gateway

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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded Raytheon [RTN] a one-year $24.4 million contract to provide a cost-effective, highly capable military wireless network interoperable gateway, the company said. Options would extend the contract to 2012 and bring the potential value to $155 million, Raytheon added. The Mobile Ad-Hoc Interoperability GATEway, or MAINGATE, will integrate any combination of heterogeneous military, civil or coalition radios into a single network to facilitate communication among disparate systems, according to Raytheon. "Our MAINGATE…

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