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Raytheon’s SLAMRAAM Completes System Field Integration Testing

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July 23, 2008

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TEWKSBURY, Mass., July 23, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — Raytheon Company’s
(NYSE: RTN) Surface Launched Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile successfully
completed system field integration testing at White Sands Missile Range,
N.M., demonstrating interoperability with both Patriot and Avenger weapon
systems.

“Successful integration testing will help put this much-needed air
defense capability into our warfighter’s hands,” said Pete Franklin, vice
president for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems’ National & Theater
Security Programs. “Interoperability is the key to enhanced situational
awareness.”

SLAMRAAM demonstrated its ability to form a network of sensor elements
tracking live targets and providing each battlefield element with a common
air picture with fire quality data. Avenger fire units with Stinger
missiles under SLAMRAAM command and control received targeting data
directly from the SLAMRAAM system allowing precise slew-to-cue of the
gunner turret to targets. SLAMRAAM and Patriot exchanged and displayed unit
position and air track data to form a common operational air picture
between the two air defense systems.

SLAMRAAM interoperability testing demonstrated that these systems could
work together to cover a large battlespace and allow the most appropriate
weapon to engage a particular threat. SLAMRAAM also demonstrated the
ability to communicate while on the move, maintaining both ground
situational awareness and a live air picture at fire units to support hasty
emplacement and engagements.

“This was a great collaborative effort from the SLAMRAAM contractor and
government team, demonstrating a distributed network in a field environment
as we move away from stovepipe systems to a system that is interoperable
with other air defense systems,” said Susan Christiansen, the Army’s
SLAMRAAM deputy product manager.

SLAMRAAM is a tailorable, state-of-the-art air defense system that can
defeat current and emerging cruise missile threats and a wide range of air
breathing threats. It provides the warfighter with a system of highly
mobile battlefield elements networked and geographically distributed to
provide integrated fire control capability against airborne threats.

Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon’s leader in Joint Battlespace
Integration providing affordable, integrated solutions to a broad
international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile
Defense Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland
Security.

Raytheon Company, with 2007 sales of $21.3 billion, is a technology
leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government
markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 86
years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems
integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and
command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a
broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham,
Mass., Raytheon employs 72,000 people worldwide.

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