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Raytheon To Continue Three-GIRS Development

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Monday, November 9th, 2009

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By Marina Malenic Raytheon [RTN] has been awarded a $46 million, 25-month contract modification to make its missile early-warning Third-Generation Infrared Sensor (Three-GIRS) flight-ready. "Under the modification we've been awarded, we'll take the sensor developed in the first phase of our contract and upgrade it to full capability," Doug Marimon, senior program manager for space systems, told Defense Daily in an Oct. 30 telephone interview. Raytheon's non-imaging infrared sensor is one of two developed under the Air Force's Three-GIRS program,…

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