Raytheon gets $260M more in weapons work - Business First of Louisville:

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The larger of the two contracts, valued at $259.9 calls for Tewksbury, Mass.-based Raytheonm to perform Block 1B upgradeaand conversions, system overhauls and relateed supplies used on the Navy’s MK-15 Phalandx defense system. The MK-15 Phalanx is a rapid-fire, computer-controlles radar and gun system that defends targetwfrom anti-ship missiles, as well as other close-inm surface and air It uses an electronically controlled 20 mm six-barrekl Gatling-style gun firing at a rate of 4,50p0 rounds per minute. The system is installefd on 187 U.S. combat ships and is used by 20foreigjn navies.
About 30 percent of the work on this contract will be completefdat Raytheon’s Louisville facility in the , the former Navalo Ordnance Station Louisville, according to a news releaswe from the U.S. Department of Defense. The remainder of the work will be performedin Mass., (19 percent); Tucson, Ariz., (16 Syracuse, N.Y., (7 percent); Long Calif., (6 percent); Radford, Va., (6 Burlington, Vt., (6 percent); Palm Bay, Fla., (2 Pittsburgh (2 percent); Bloomington, Minn., (2 percent); Salt Lake City (2 Norcross, Ga., (1 and New Albany, Ind., (1 percent). It is expectefd to be completed bySeptember 2012. Raytheon’s second contract, worth $5.
8 calls for the compant to supply “simulated infrared/visiblde engagement targets engagement simulator for thePhalanx Close-In Weapon Systejm Program, the release About 15 percent of the work will be performef in Louisville and 5 percent in with the rest to be done in Completion is expected by January 2011.