ANONS, this last bread posting I'm reposting along with these additional comments. This is very interesting news from missile maker Raytheon with a companion 15 minute video.
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Listening to this 15 min video reference very unusual behavior at Raytheon Corporation in AZ especially in light of what is produced there, caused further digging and additional confirmation that money is flowing in there and the last line caught my attention along with the hirering spree!
Raytheon Gets $101M Modification on Army TOW Guided Missile Contract
Matthew Nelson May 13, 2019 Contract Awards, News
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will provide additional tube-launched, optically-tracked wireless guided missile systems to the U.S. Army under a three-year, $101.3M contract modification.
The service branch used fiscal 2017 other procurement funds to cover the full obligated amount at the time of award, the Department of Defense said Friday.
Work under the modification will take place in Tucson, Ariz., through Aug. 31, 2022.
The company initially received a $300.1M fixed-price-incentive contract in 2017 to supply TOW missiles to the Army, U.S. Marine Corps and three foreign military sales clients.
Ground forces use the weapon system to defend against adversarial armored and wheeled platforms
Raytheon on hiring spree as Tucson expansion takes shape
Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems has already hired most of the 2,000 new workers it planned in a major expansion at the company’s plant complex near the airport, the company’s chief said Thursday at a dedication ceremony.
“These new facilities will house many of the 2,000 new employees we’ll be hiring over the next few years — we’ve already hired the majority of them,” Raytheon Missile Systems President Taylor Lawrence told a crowd at a ribbon-cutting for the first new building attended by Gov. Doug Ducey and other state and local officials.
Raytheon, Southern Arizona’s largest private employer, now counts about 11,800 employees spread across the airport and several other facilities in the Tucson area, a spokesman said.
As the company christened a new visitor-access center on the north side of its airport complex on Thursday, an advanced test facility and a multipurpose building for research on classified programs are still under construction and expected to be completed later this year.
Those and several other buildings planned for completion by 2020 will mainly house work on classified research and development programs and include laboratories, a high-performance computing center and a massive indoor anti-echo chamber to test missile sensors, Lawrence said.
“This is all about high-performance, next generation missile research and development, and obviously there will be some office space, but as you see there’s not a lot of windows because of all the very, very sensitive R&D we’re doing,” Lawrence said in an interview, noting that the project is the company’s biggest local expansion since the 1980s.
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https://www.govconwire.com/2019/05/raytheon-gets-101m-modification-on-army-tow-guided-missile-contract/
https://tucson.com/business/raytheon-on-hiring-spree-as-tucson-expansion-takes-shape/article_3fd571fd-8d2c-527c-b22c-ccfdbe1e9bee.html
United States : Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona awarded $12,111,859 for modification
Published: Apr 17, 2019 4:21 p.m. ET
Apr 17, 2019 (Euclid Infotech Ltd via COMTEX) – Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded $12,111,859 for modification P00002 to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm contract (N00019-18-C-1068) for procurement of AIM-9X Lot 18 Block II All Up Round tactical missiles, Captive Air Training missile guidance units, tail caps and containers, and spares for the Navy, Air Force and the governments of South Korea, Australia, Qatar, Norway, Indonesia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Poland, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, Belgium, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands, Finland, Switzerland, Slovakia, Singapore, and Denmark.