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Raytheon Gets Development Contract For Submarine Communications System

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Thursday, November 29th, 2007

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By Geoff Fein Raytheon RTN] has been awarded a $5.2 million contract to provide the Navy with a tactical paging system to improve submarine communications at speed and depth. Dubbed Deep Siren, the system uses a number of commercial-off-the-shelf components including Iridium satellite communications, an expendable buoy, and transmit-and-receive stations to enable a submarine to receive text messages without having to surface to communications depth, Bill Matzelevich, senior manager of business development, told Defense Daily in a recent interview. Raytheon…

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