Army re-ups Raytheon for Patriot missile support

• By Doug Beizer
• Feb 20, 2006

The Army Aviation and Missile Command has awarded a $65 million contract renewal to Raytheon Co. for engineering and technical services supporting the Patriot Air and Missile Defense program.

Under the contract, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems will provide system and software engineering, hardware engineering, system testing, quality assurance, configuration management, logistic support and program management.

The work includes implementation of the architecture for the first phase of the Combined Aggregate Program, second-phase studies and system architecture studies.

Raytheon is the prime contractor for Patriot air and missile defense. The award covers the second of four one-year options to the 2004 award.

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems will perform the work at its headquarters in Tewksbury, Mass., and nearly a half dozen other sites in the United States and overseas.

Doug Beizer is a staff writer for Government Computer News' sister publication, Washington Technology.