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Raytheon Responds To Navy’s Immediate Need For Affordable New Weapons

Wednesday, May 18th, 2016

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Raytheon Responds To Navy’s Immediate Need For Affordable New Weapons

A Tomahawk launched off a U.S. Navy vessel. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Missile manufacturers anticipate Navy requirements for new weapon capabilities will come directly from deployed fleets, emerging as urgent operational needs rather than traditional acquisition programs.Rather than dealing with Navy acquisition officials and following a traditional acquisition process, industry will be tasked with rapidly developing new capabilities for legacy offensive and defensive systems in the field, said Gerard Heuber, a retired vice admiral who currently serves as Raytheon’s [RTN] vice president of business development for naval and…

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