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Raytheon Launches Persistent Surveillance Eagle-300 Sensor

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Friday, December 14th, 2007

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By Ann Roosevelt Raytheon [RTN] yesterday announced the launch of the Eagle-300, a wide area long-range sensor providing a persistent 360-degree view of a specific area, officials said. "Persistent surveillance is an ever more important need in the uncertain environment that we live in today," Gene Blackwell, Raytheon vice president of the Rapid Initiatives Group (RIG), a Raytheon Network Centric Systems team, said at a briefing and demonstration. The RIG is a type of SWAT team that is "designed to…

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