Raytheon Awarded Aegis Transmitter Groups Contract for Australia and Spain

Released on Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Raytheon Company, Integrated Defense Systems, Sudbury Mass., is being awarded a $184,918,996 firm-fixed-price definitization modification for production of four Aegis Weapon Systems (AWS) Transmitter Groups. AWS is the primary anti-air warfare defensive weapons system onboard surface ship combatants. The heart of AWS is the AN/SPY-1 Radar System, a three-dimensional, air/surface search and tracking radar. The transmitter group is part of that system. Three of the transmitter groups are for the Commonwealth of Australia Air Warfare Destroyer shipbuilding program, with one designated for the Government of Spain F105 program. Work will be performed in Andover, Mass., and is expected to be completed by April 2010. This modification supports the Governments of Australia (75 percent) and Spain (25 percent) under the Foreign Military Sales program. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-06-C-5118).