"Raytheon has a proud and distinguished history as a leading provider of advanced submarine systems and full service support for the U.S. Navy and its fleet," said Upinder Dhinsa, IDS' vice president of Naval Integrated Systems.
"We remain committed to providing our expertise to the development and production of quality systems, like the sonar transmit group subsystem, to help ensure our customers' continued mission success."
Under the contract, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) will provide program management, systems engineering, configuration management, and materials procurement for the manufacture, test and integration of the sonar transmit group subsystem.
This contract follows the shipset five subsystem contract awarded to Raytheon in December 2003. Raytheon has provided engineering development, production and data deliverables for Virginia class shipsets one through five and will provide the same for this next shipset (six), as well as shipsets seven through 10 as the options are exercised within this current contract. Work will be performed at Raytheon's Naval Integration Center in Portsmouth, R.I.