Raytheon’s Forest plant garners piece of order

Raytheon Technical Services of Indianapolis, Ind., was awarded a $40,911,284 delivery order against a previous Navy agreement for the repair of 40 Weapon Replaceable Assemblies of the APG 65/73 Radar System used in support of F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. The large majority of the work will be in Indianapolis (57%); but Raytheon’s Forest, Miss., plant will take on 17 percent of the work. The Mississippi plant produces hundreds of radars that use a revolutionary type of sensing technology known as active electronically scanned arrays (AESA). The company is now the world’s biggest producer of tactical AESA radars. Work is expected to be completed no later than December 2015. Naval Supply Systems Command, Weapon Systems Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity. (Source: Defense Department, Dec. 27, 2013)