Raytheon is to continue to provide the Air Force with around-the-clock field services to the warfighter at numerous sites worldwide.

The field services, under a follow-on award from the Air Force Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, are for high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and the Distributed Command Ground System mission, or DCGS.

The contract is worth $174.5 million.

Raytheon says it has provided the services to the Air Force for 14 years, and since 2005 has supported more than 14,000 airborne missions and more than 20,000 ground missions as part of the service's Contractor Field Services program.

"Our Contractor Field Service representatives offer mission critical expertise and are intimately familiar with how entire systems work, which allows them to successfully support the DCGS mission," said Todd Probert, vice president for the Mission Support and Modernization mission area at Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services. "Our long partnership with the Air Force has allowed Raytheon to seamlessly collaborate with our customer to achieve mission success -- we have reduced cost while maximizing system availability."

The Ground mission services include system maintenance, operations training, pre-flight system checks, mission support during flights, post-mission problem analysis, and installation of new systems as well as system upgrades. The Raytheon Contractor Field Services team also supports data processing and data dissemination for unmanned system sensors, ground controls, and data links.