X-Nico

13 unusual facts about Raytheon


1983 Kuwait bombings

Other car bombs exploded at the control tower at the Kuwait International Airport, the Electricity Control Center and the living quarters for American employees of the Raytheon Corporation, which was installing a missile system in Kuwait.

Aberfoyle Park High School

In 2008, Aberfoyle Park High School entered into a partnership with defense contractor, Raytheon Australia to provide $450,000 funding over the next 3 years for purchase of new computers for IGNITE, Science and Maths students at the school.

C. K. Raut

He has served as scientist for the US based company Raytheon BBN technologies.

Da Vinci Schools

Some of Da Vinci Schools’ partners include: Northrop Grumman, Belkin International, The Boeing Company, Chevron Corporation, Raytheon, SpaceX, Art Center College of Design, Mattel, Gensler, Deutsch advertising, Karten Design, Project Lead the Way, Antioch University Los Angeles, Marymount California University, and many more.

Eamonn McCann

McCann was tried in Belfast in May–June 2008 for his actions as one of the Raytheon 9, a group who attacked and damaged the Raytheon factory in Derry.

Francesco Paolo Bontade

He used his excellent connections to secure the location Eletronica Siciliana (ELSI), a subsidiary of the huge US defence contractor Raytheon, in his district in 1962.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering

Started in 2002 with a $50 million grant from the U.S. Army, the Institute works with a corsotium of firms, including Raytheon, DuPont and Brigham and Women's Hospital, to develop new technologies in support of the Future Force Warrior system.

One Mack-Cali Center

The buildings main tenant, Raytheon, has kept the building 80 to 90 percent occupied despite vacancy problems in downtown Tampa.

RIM-113

The designation XRIM-113A, indicating an experimental ship-launched interceptor missile, was allocated to the SIRCS project in May 1976, and contracts were awarded to three separate teams of contractors - RCA/Martin-Marietta, McDonnell Douglas/Sperry, and Raytheon/Lockheed/Univac - for initial studies of the SIRCS missile concept, in anticipation of a competitive evaluation.

RIM-174 Standard ERAM

Raytheon entered a contract in 2004 to develop this missile for the United States Navy, after the cancellation of the SM-2ER Block IVA (RIM-156B) missile.

SAM-N-2 Lark

Six of the Convair airframes were given to Raytheon to explore use of velocity-gated continuous wave doppler radar for guided missile target seekers, while most other United States investigators used range-gated pulse radar.

Solid Concepts

In 2006, Solid Concepts acquired a model shop from Raytheon in Tucson, AZ, thus beginning their tooling and molding department.

The Sum Of All Thrills

Sponsored by Raytheon, the ride lets park guests custom-design their own thrill ride using mathematical tools, an innovative touch-screen table and a robotic simulator.


Alliance Laundry Systems

In February 1998, private equity firm Bain Capital agreed to acquire the commercial laundry business from Raytheon for $358 million.

Amanda Simpson

Simpson occupied several systems engineer, systems architect, and systems integrator roles in between 2002 and 2006 on projects diverse as the Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft (UCAR), the Joint Airborne Weapons System (JAWS) (later renamed the Beechcraft AT-6B) and a variety of advanced technology development and demonstration projects at Raytheon.

Amazon Surveillance System

Brazilian police wiretapped a telephone conversation between a special advisor to the Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and Raytheon's operative in Brazil, Jose Afonso Assumpcão.

Anaren

The company started with a few dozen employees and a small facility in Syracuse, New York and its first customers were many manufacturing firms in the U.S. defense and aerospace sector including Hughes, Litton Industries (now part of Northrup Grumman), and Raytheon.

Beechcraft

In 1994, Raytheon merged Beechcraft with the Hawker product line it had acquired in 1993 from British Aerospace, forming Raytheon Aircraft Company.

Cofiroute USA

The decision was then made to expand Cofiroute's North American business and, in January 2003, Cofiroute USA was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Cofiroute, S.A. Later that year, Cofiroute USA joined a consortium consisting of Wilbur Smith Associates, Raytheon, SRF Consulting and Frank Wilson & Associates to bid on the Interstate 394 HOV Lane conversion in Minneapolis.

Core rope memory

Core rope memory is a form of read-only memory (ROM) for computers, first used in the 1960s by early NASA Mars probes and then in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) designed and programmed by the MIT Instrumentation Lab and built by Raytheon.

COSYSMO

Initially developed in 2002, the model now contains a calibration data set of more than 50 projects provided by major aerospace and defense companies such as Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, General Dynamics, and BAE Systems.

Cynthia Gregory

She has been featured in advertising campaigns for American Express (“Do you know me? You know my toes!”), Raytheon, and Rolex.

GBU-10 Paveway II

Raytheon production of the Paveway II is centered in Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico.

Hellenic Aerospace Industry

Furthermore, it has been approved and certified as a maintenance center for the C-130 aircraft by Lockheed Aeronautics, King Air aircraft by Raytheon and P-3 aircraft by the Hellenic Navy.

Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program

Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems is a subcontractor on the program, tasked with hardware development.

Onex Corporation

In January 2007, Onex signed a deal to acquire the Raytheon Aircraft Company from Raytheon (forming Hawker Beechcraft).

Project Scorpion

Larger defense companies serving as lead-system integrators for Project Scorpion include Northrop Grumman/EADS, Raytheon/Thales and General Dynamics, SAIC, SAGEM, Lockheed Martin Marietta and Boeing.

Raytheon Sentinel

The Raytheon Sentinel is a Bombardier Global Express modified as an airborne battlefield and ground surveillance platform for the Royal Air Force.

Sean M. Joyce

Prior to joining the FBI as a Special Agent in the Miami Field Office in 1987, Joyce worked at Raytheon, Accenture, and Merrill Lynch.

Suffolk, Virginia

Other large employers in the City of Suffolk include Unilever, Lipton Tea, Wal-Mart, Target, QVC, and two major modeling and simulation companies, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

ThalesRaytheonSystems

Thales-Raytheon Systems Company LLC (ThalesRaytheonSystems or TRS) is an aerospace and defence company co-headquartered in Massy, Paris, France and Fullerton, California, United States, and a 50:50 joint venture between Raytheon and Thales Group.

The Eagle-Tribune

He said the paper championed economic redevelopment in its editorials and news articles, and persuaded companies such as Avco, Honeywell and Raytheon to open plants in Lawrence.

Wichita Northeast Magnet High School

Partners include the City of Wichita (Water and Sewer Department, Botanica), the University of Kansas Medical Center, Newman University, the Great Plains Nature Center, Lake Afton Observatory, Raytheon, and others.

William Swanson

William H. Swanson (born 1949), chairman and chief executive officer of Raytheon Company