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FAA Awards Air Traffic Control Optimum Training Solution Contract to Raytheon Team

Written by thomas · Filed Under Aeronautics News, Commercial 

September 10, 2008

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RESTON, Va., Sept. 10, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — A team led by Raytheon
Technical Services Company (RTSC) LLC, a subsidiary of Raytheon Company
(NYSE: RTN), has received a 10-year contract to provide training support
for Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers. The single
contractor award is valued at $437 million for the five-year base period.
The contract also has two options. If exercised, the first option is three
years and the second option, two years.

The FAA’s Air Traffic Control Optimum Training Solution (ATCOTS)
contract is a performance-based contract that replaces the current FAA
field Training Support for Air Traffic (TSAT) and the FAA Academy
Instructional Support Services (ISS) contracts. The ATCOTS contract, which
began Sept. 9, gives the Raytheon team the ability to examine the entire
air traffic controller training lifecycle.

“We are proud to have been selected to provide training support for the
next decade,” said Rick Yuse, RTSC president. “Our ATCOTS team is committed
to ensuring a smooth transition, exceptional training and an improved
training process for the FAA’s air traffic controllers.”

The Raytheon-led ATCOTS team includes Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.,
Arlington, Va.; Dynamic Sciences, Inc., Phoenix, Ariz.; The Fortier Group,
Oceanside, Calif.; CNI Information Technology, LLC, Oklahoma City, Okla.;
Interim Solutions for Government, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Chenega Technology
Services Corporation, Alexandria, Va.; University of North Dakota, Grand
Forks, N.D.; and Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Minneapolis,
Minn.

“Our systematic approach to designing training solutions will help the
FAA provide safe, uninterrupted travel for air travelers,” said Raytheon
Program Manager Charlie Keegan. “The training we will deliver to the FAA is
built on more than 40 years of experience delivering a full range of
training to the air traffic control community.”

RTSC provides technology solutions for defense, federal and commercial
customers worldwide. RTSC specializes in Mission Support (including
installation, integration, maintenance, training and logistics support),
counterproliferation and counterterrorism, homeland security solutions,
base and range operations and customized engineering and manufacturing.

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.

Note to Editors:

This contract award was announced by the FAA Sept. 9, 2008.

The TSAT contract incumbent is the Washington Consulting Group (WCG),
and the ISS contract incumbent is the University of Oklahoma (OU). WCG and
OU were on the Lockheed Martin Corporation ATCOTS team. Both WCG and OU
have been incumbents for more than 20 years.

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