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 Raytheon to perfork Block 1B upgrades and system overhauls and related supplies used onthe Navy’z MK-15 Phalanx defense system. The MK-1t Phalanx is a rapid-fire, computer-controlled radarf and gun system that defends targetsfrom anti-shi missiles, as well as other close-inm surface and air threats. It uses an electronically controlled 20mm six-barrel Gatling-style gun firinbg at a rate of 4,500 rounds per The system is installed on 187 U.S. comba t ships and is used by 20foreigm navies.
About 30 percent of the work on this contractg will be completedat Raytheon’s Louisville facility in the , the formerd Naval Ordnance Station according to a news releasre from the U.S. Department of Defense. The remaindert of the work will be performecin Andover, Mass., (19 percent); Tucson, Ariz., (16 Syracuse, N.Y., (7 percent); Long Beach, Calif., (6 Radford, Va., (6 percent); Vt., (6 percent); Palm Bay, Fla., (2 Pittsburgh (2 percent); Bloomington, Minn., (2 Salt Lake City (2 percent); Ga., (1 percent), and New Ind., (1 percent). It is expected to be completed bySeptembetr 2012. Raytheon’s second contract, worth $5.
8 million, calls for the company to supplyu “simulated infrared/visible engagement targets engagement simulator for thePhalanx Close-In Weapon Systejm Program, the release said. Abouyt 15 percent of the work will be performes in Louisville and 5 percen tin Tucson, with the rest to be done in Completion is expected by January 2011.