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Business/Financial

Raytheon Launches Initiative To Capture International ISR Business Opportunities

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Thursday, December 6th, 2007

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Raytheon [RTN] has launched an initiative called Global Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (GO ISR) to leverage the company's expertise and provide tailored information-gathering systems and integrated sensor-platform solutions in the near term to customers in the emerging, multibillion-dollar international ISR market, according to a senior company official. "We have been doing a lot of analysis in the entire airborne ISR marketplace around the world and, fundamentally, we see about a $20 billion opportunity," Jim Hvizd, director of Enterprise Pursuits within…

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