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Raytheon Wins Potential $400M AF Air Traffic Control Program

RaytheonLogoRaytheon (NYSE: RTN) has won a $50.6 million contract to deploy air traffic control surveillance systems for the Air Force to manage joint, coalition and civil aircraft, Air Traffic Management reports.

Aimiee Turner writes the Deployable Radar Approach Control program is potentially worth $400 million and the company is expected to deliver 19 systems to the Air Force by 2016.

D-RAPCON systems comprise of primary and secondary air traffic control radars with a radar antenna, networked data communications, voice communications systems and an operations center.

Turner writes the Air Force sought systems that C-130 aircraft can deploy within 48 hours and require less than six hours to set up.

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