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Raytheon Wins MDA Contract For A Wargame Scenario Assessment System

Friday, February 17th, 2017

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Raytheon Wins MDA Contract For A Wargame Scenario Assessment System

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Raytheon [RTN] a contract to develop an automated tool to assess the effectiveness of using missiles, kinetic interceptors, cyber and electronic warfare (non-kinetic) weapons in wargames, the company said Thursday.The assessment tool is meant to automatically teach wargame participants which weapons to use in all possible scenarios and help better prepare the warfighters. The contract was awarded under the MDA’s Advanced Technology Broad Agency Announcement.Raytheon will deliver an initial wargame tool based on…

Congress

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Congress

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