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Raytheon Recruits Northrop To Integrated Battle Command Program

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Monday, May 18th, 2009

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Raytheon Co. [RTN] has brought Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] into its team for the Army Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) program. Northrop joins others in the IBCS team including Raytheon, General Dynamics Corp. [GD], Teledyne Brown Engineering, Davidson Technologies, IBM, and Carlson Technologies, as well as academia partners. Northrop brings expertise in evaluating warfighter benefits of space-based data to the IBCS architecture. The Northrop Grumman Space & ISR Systems Division performs work at Buckley and Schriever Air Force Bases elsewhere…

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