The University of Virginia has emerged as the winner of the Raytheon-sponsored (NYSE: RTN) 2018 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition for its efforts to safeguard a fictional biotech company’s network from persistent cyber threats. Teams from top 10 universities took part in the three-day NCCDC championship that started Friday, April …

Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) self protect systems business has received a potential seven-year, $460 million contract to supply line- and shop-replaceable units for the U.S. Air Force‘s radar warning receiver system. The company will fabricate, integrate, test and deliver the components for the AN/ALR‐69A digital RWR system under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work …

Poland has signed an agreement to purchase the Raytheon-built Patriot integrated air-and-missile defense platform from the U.S. government. Pete Bata, vice president of Polish air and missile defense at Raytheon, said in a statement published Wednesday the letter of offer and acceptance will pave the way for the company to …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 27, 2018 — A Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) business unit will deliver lifecycle management and technical support to the U.S. Navy and U.K. government for the maintenance of a Tomahawk cruise missile depot facility under a $36.8 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The Defense Department said Friday the contract …

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will now commence work on a potential three-year, $600 million contract to provide software sustainment and upgrade support for the U.S. Army’s missile defense systems following the withdrawal of a bid protest in February. The company said Monday it received the contract in June 2017 and will start …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 26, 2018 — Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has utilized Amazon Web Services‘ cloud platform for government customers to help accelerate tests on information technology systems and comply with security requirements, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. AWS said Thursday Raytheon was able to reduce testing time using an AWS GovCloud (US)-based …

Poland has signed potential 10-year offset agreements with Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) related to the European country’s planned procurement of the Patriot missile system, The Times of Israel reported Friday. “The offset agreements for the Wisla program are signed… This is the final step before signing …

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will manufacture another lot of Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile systems under a $523.1 million modification to a U.S. Air Force contract. Work covers the production of lot 32 AMRAAMs and other missile system items for USAF and eight foreign military sales customers, the Defense Department …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 23, 2018 — Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has advanced to the final phase in the development of software for a ground-based operational control system in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS III satellites, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the final software development stage for the …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 22, 2018 — Dave Wajsgras, president of the intelligence, information and services business at Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), has noted during his address at the 2018 Boston Conference on Cyber Security that cybersecurity applies across the ground, aerial, maritime and space domains, ExecutiveBiz reported. “[Cyber] cuts across all …