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Raytheon Wins $21 Million DARPA Contract For Network Centric Radio System

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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last Friday awarded Raytheon [RTN] a $21.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee and fixed-price contract to develop the generation Network Centric Radio System (NCRS), with additional capabilities and an assured affordable price to the user, the Defense Department said. Raytheon beat out three other bids for the project, DARPA noted. The award was announced June 26. DARPA envisions two critical technologies for achieving a backbone radio architecture that enables a versatile IP networks and a radio…

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