Raytheon Company has been awarded an additional $59 million to its Global Broadcast Service (GBS) contract by the U.S. Air Force's Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom, AFB, Mass., extending services through December 2005. Raytheon will perform the work at various customer sites with management and administrative support out of its Reston, Va., facility.
"Raytheon looks forward to developing and supplying hardware and software system upgrades to fully transition the existing architecture to the latest DoD-directed and computer industry Internet Protocol 4 standard," said Guy Dubois, vice president of Information Management and Dissemination Systems for Raytheon.
Raytheon's work on the contract will focus on engineering, production, logistics, and operational support to upgrade the existing Air Force GBS satellite communications, deployed worldwide, to all of the U.S. military services. The system, operational after the events on Sept. 11, 2001, provides high capacity broadcast products including audio, video, files, and Web services.
