System Developed Jointly by FBI and Raytheon Recognized with 2009 Government Computer News Agency IT Award

System Developed Jointly by FBI and Raytheon Recognized with 2009 Government
Computer News Agency IT Award

WASHINGTON and RESTON, Va., Nov. 2, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Data
Exchange (N-DEx) criminal justice information sharing system has been
recognized with a Government Computer News (GCN) 2009 Agency Information
Technology Award.

N-DEx was jointly developed by the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services
(CJIS) Division and Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN). It is one of 10 government
agency projects to be distinguished as outstanding IT initiatives for 2009.

"Our partnership with Raytheon has enabled us to provide the criminal justice
community with a state-of-the-art system and to support the FBI's mission of
keeping our communities safe," said Dan Roberts, assistant director of the FBI
CJIS division. "We are honored that N-DEx has been recognized for its
outstanding achievement in advancing information sharing and increased
collaboration between criminal justice agencies in our country."

With its initial roll out in March 2008, N-DEx has enabled criminal justice
agencies to "connect the dots" like never before between seemingly unrelated
incidents across jurisdictional boundaries. The system enables investigators
and analysts the ability to share incident reports, correlate crime data and
collaborate on criminal justice investigations on a national basis. N-DEx
currently can provide up to 100,000 users access to "entity resolution"
searches on incident and case reports. This helps to identify possible matches
based on information (names, addresses, phone numbers, evidence, etc.) from
multiple records including arrest, booking and incarceration data.

"The GCN Award validates the hard work and exceptional partnership between the
FBI and Raytheon that went into developing N-DEx," said TW Scott, Raytheon
Information Solutions vice president. "We are excited to continue to work
closely with the FBI and our partners to deliver the most secure, effective
and reliable information sharing solutions for the criminal justice
community."

Upon completion in 2010, the N-DEx system will allow up to 200,000
investigators in the nation's 18,000 local, state, tribal and federal criminal
justice agencies to access incident, investigative and incarceration
information from across disparate systems and jurisdiction boundaries.

Award winners were profiled in the Oct. 12 issue of the magazine and were also
honored at GCN's 22nd Annual Awards Gala, held Oct. 22, in Washington, D.C.

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.

Note to Editors:

The N-DEx contract is administered through Chief Information Officer -
Solutions and Partners 2 (CIO-SP2) contract number HHSN263999900024I. For more
information, visit the National Institute of Health (NIH) Information
Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC) Web site at
NITAAC.nih.gov.

Contacts:
FBI - CJIS Division Raytheon
Stephen G. Fischer Jr. Keith D. Little
304.625.5820 703.608.4230
Stephen.Fischer@ic.fbi.gov iismedia@raytheon.com

SOURCE Raytheon Company

Stephen G. Fischer Jr., FBI - CJIS Division, +1-304-625-5820,
Stephen.Fischer@ic.fbi.gov; or Keith D. Little of Raytheon, +1-703-608-4230,
iismedia@raytheon.com