Author: Jane Edwards|| Date Published: April 26, 2016
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential $104 million contract to provide maintenance and operations support for the U.S. Navys Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar system.
ROTHR is a surveillance radar system designed to detect and track aircraft and ships at long ranges over a coverage area of 2.5 million square miles, the company said Tuesday.
Dave Wajsgras
The contract awarded by the Naval Supply Systems Command covers support for six ROTHR sites in Virginia, Texas and Puerto Rico.
“Our team will work closely with the U.S. Navy’s Forces Surveillance Support Center and the Joint Interagency Task Force South, tracking hundreds of illegal activities every year that threaten to enter our borders, ” said Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheons intelligence, information and services business segment and inductee into Executive Mosaics Wash100 for 2016.
JIATF-S uses ROTHR to help detect and prevent narcoterrorism and other illegal trafficking operations.
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