Raytheon awarded $241 million to support South Korea Patriot Air and Missile Defense

Written on April 21, 2008 – 8:00 pm | by Frontier India Strategic and Defence |

Raytheon Company has received a $241 million U.S. Foreign Military Sales contract to provide the Republic of Korea with command and control, communications, maintenance support, and training equipment for the Patriot air and missile defense system. This production and support award complements the $28.7 million engineering services contract the company announced March 3.

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) is the prime contractor for the Patriot system and the integration of all variants of the system. The capability delivered will provide improved air and missile defense for South Korea.

Work will be performed at Raytheon’s Integrated Air Defense Center, Andover, Mass.; the Warfighter Protection Center, Huntsville, Ala.; and the Mission Capability and Verification Center, White Sands, N.M.

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