Mon, Feb 16, 2004
What, You Mean Someone In This Business Is Hiring Again?
Raytheon Company plans
to increase its workforce in Huntsville (AL) with manufacturing
work if awarded the contract for the Joint Common Missile (JCM)
program later this year.
"Raytheon has been a member of the Huntsville community and a
committed Army partner for many years," said William H. Swanson,
Raytheon chairman and chief executive officer. "From our Patriot
and HAWK air and missile defense systems, to land combat weapons
such as Stinger, TOW and Javelin, to cutting- edge missile defense
technologies, Raytheon has been partnering with the Army in
Huntsville for decades to provide solutions for our warfighters. We
hope to further our partnership with our commitment to manufacture
the JCM in Huntsville."
Should Raytheon win, JCM could add approximately 200 new jobs to
the Raytheon payroll in Alabama and will provide 15 to 20 years of
JCM missile production work in Huntsville. The missile initially
will be developed and tested at Raytheon's Missile Systems business
in Tucson (AZ), and production would be transitioned to Huntsville
for assembly of the JCM seeker and final missile assembly and check
out.
Currently, four of Raytheon Company's defense businesses employ
about 530 people in Huntsville, home of the U.S. Army's Redstone
Arsenal and the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command.
Raytheon's Army Airborne Command and Control System (A2C2S) program
office is located in Huntsville, as is the company's Extended Air
Test Bed and support services for a number of programs, including
Patriot, THAAD, Joint Land-Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated
Netted Sensor System (JLENS), and NASA programs at the Marshall
Space Flight Center.
JCM will replace the Army's aging inventory of Hellfire
missiles. "Threat integrated air defenses dictate that more range
than the existing Hellfire is needed to give the warfighter the
flexibility to stand off and the freedom to maneuver," Walker said.
"And although the Maverick remains a very capable missile, the JCM
brings a two-fold increase in kills per sortie as well as
leading-edge autonomous target recognition, acquisition, track and
precision lethality with minimal collateral damage. To meet these
requirements, Raytheon is building an evolutionary Joint Common
Missile, with revolutionary capabilities, in Huntsville. Raytheon
works well with the community and the Arsenal," he said.
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