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Raytheon awarded up to $600 million U.S. Army strategic software systems contract

Raytheon has been awarded a contract valued up to $600 million for software support and sustainment to modernize missile defense and other strategic systems. The work will be conducted at the Software Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, says the company.

Rapid prototyping, hardware development, testing and validation will support Raytheon’s software engineering. Systems includes trategic missiles and launchers, radars, data mining and visualization tools, condition-based maintenance, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, virtual operations centers, and cyber resiliency of fielded systems.

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