Raytheon [RTN] says it has received a $2.9 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop new approaches for protecting Defense Department service oriented architectures against malicious attacks. Raytheon says the advanced security features it will develop under the Advanced Protected Services (APS) program will handle the multifaceted and dynamic information exchange demanded by network centric operations more quickly and cost effectively. Raytheon says the goal of the APS program is to enable future military service-oriented information systems to detect, protect and adapt to survive attacks from motivated, well-resources and determined enemies. The work is being performed by Raytheon’s BBN Technologies subsidiary, which was recently acquired.