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Raytheon Wins $1 Billion Contract For SM-6 Full Rate Production

Thursday, December 26th, 2019

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Raytheon Wins $1 Billion Contract For SM-6 Full Rate Production

The USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) fires an SM-3 Block IB missiles during Formidable Shield 2017. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $1.03 billion contract for Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) full rate production requirements, spares, and round design agent. The December 20 award covers multi-year procurement of fiscal year 2019-2023 SM-6 including all-up rounds, flight test rounds, spares, and round design agent. Work will be split largely between East Camden, Ark. (33 percent); Huntsville, Ala. (21 percent); Wolverhampton, United Kingdom (13.5 percent); Andover, Mass. (7 percent); and Middletown, Ohio (3.5 percent) and is expected to be complete…

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