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Raytheon Working Toward Anti-Jamming GPS Antenna

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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

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A Raytheon Co. [RTN] unit received a U.S. Air Force contract for initial production of the GPS Advanced Digital Antenna Production system. The ADAP system protects GPS-based navigation and precise timing systems from deliberate jamming and accidental interference. The Air Force Global Positioning Systems Wing award to Raytheon Systems Limited (RSL), valued at $1.4 million, provides for 41 antenna electronics and 28 controlled reception pattern antenna to equip U.S. Navy surface platforms and fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. The ADAP system…

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