Raytheon has been awarded $81 million contract for airborne sonar

12:00 AM, September 23, 2009
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Raytheon Co., is being awarded an $81,100,001 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 23 FY09 full rate production Lot VII AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar helicopter dipping sonar systems for the MH-60R Program. Work will be performed in Brest, France, (72 percent); Portsmouth, R.I., (26 percent); and Gaithersburg, Md., (2 percent), and is expected to be completed in November 2012.

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