Raytheon Awarded $5.5 million Contract to Develop HEALICS Technology

TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 12, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- The Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency has awarded Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) a $5.5 million
contract to design, fabricate and test Self-HEALing mixed-signal Integrated
Circuits (HEALICS) technology. If all contract phases are completed, the value
of the contract could reach $11 million.

Raytheon's HEALICS effort incorporates self-healing into a complex
system-on-chip (SoC) design, providing the capability for the chip to sense
undesired circuit behaviors and correct them automatically. This maximizes the
yield of increasingly complex mixed-signal SoC's on an individual wafer to
meet demanding performance specifications in the presence of extreme process
variations and environment conditions.

"The Raytheon approach breaks through the limitations of the current
application-specific approaches and provides an efficient, general solution
for self-healing," said Michael Del Checcolo, vice president of Engineering
for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. "This solution can be integrated into
a wide variety of mixed-signal circuit designs leading to significant
increases in yield-to-performance, resulting in increased functionality and
lower cost for a broad range of military applications."

Using its OpenAIR(TM) business model for assembling talent and capabilities,
Raytheon is partnering with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
Calif.; and North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., to bring a unique
and complimentary set of skills, experience and expertise to this program.

Integrated Defense Systems is Raytheon's leader in Global Capabilities
Integration providing affordable, integrated solutions to a broad
international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile Defense
Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland Security.

Raytheon Company, with 2008 sales of $23.2 billion, is a technology and
innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other
government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning
87 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems
integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and
command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad
range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass.,
Raytheon employs 73,000 people worldwide.

Contact:
Michele Lemos
978.858.5850

SOURCE Raytheon Company

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