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Raytheon to Sustain Air Combat Missile for Foreign Sales

RaytheonLogoRaytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business has won a $20, 148, 055 contract modification to support and sustain an air combat missile for the U.S. Air Force and Navy.

The company will also support U.S. foreign military sales agreements with nine international partners under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday.

Australia, Denmark, Finland,  Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and Turkey are listed as AIM-9X Sidewinder program customers in the Pentagon’s release.

According to the company, more than 40 nations use this Sidewinder variant.

Raytheon will receive funding for individual delivery orders as they receive them and will perform work in Tucson, Ariz. through March 2014.

 

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