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Raytheon Is Exploring Other Opportunities For AESA

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Thursday, May 28th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] continues to explore opportunities for its Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, but the focus of the advanced radar remains the Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, a company official said. Last July, the first Super Hornet squadron equipped with AESA was deployed board the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). In the 10 months since that initial deployment, a second squadron has deployed to the Reagan. Both deployments went extremely well, Dave Goold, Raytheon business development director for…

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