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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Raytheon Company Awarded $266 Million Standard Missile-3 Contract

Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract with a total value of $266 million to build, test and deliver Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) rounds to the Missile Defense Agency to meet the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense deployment requirements. Initial funding of $168 million has been issued.

The contract calls for SM-3 Block IA missiles to be produced for the United States and Japan and for flight test support, engineering activity, system upgrades and continued cooperative research and development work with Japan.

The SM-3 Block IA provides upgrades to improve missile reliability and supportability at a reduced unit production cost. Launched from the USS Shiloh, the SM-3 Block IA intercepted a separating ballistic missile target on its first opportunity in June 2006. Raytheon is also under contract to develop the SM-3 Block IB, which includes an advanced two-color infrared seeker and a throttling divert and attitude control system that improves the system effectiveness against longer range and more sophisticated ballistic missile threats.

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