Raytheon Market Leader in Defense And Homeland Security Markets

Raytheon is a market leader in defense, homeland security and other government markets all over the world. It provides electronics and mission systems integration along with capabilities in the field of sensing, effects, command, control, communication and intelligence systems. They also provide a wide range of mission support services.

Raytheon is a renowned supplier of integrated mission system for critical defense and non-defense needs of its clients providing a wide range of products and services in the government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, business, aviation and special mission aircraft. Its business segments consist of Integrated Defense Systems, Network Centric System, Intelligence and Information System, Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC, Missile Systems, Space and Airborne Systems.

Integrated Defense Systems division of Raytheon provides affordable, integrated solutions to clients like US Missile Defense Agency and US Armed Forces. Its Network Centric Systems produces mission solutions for networking, command and control, battlespace awareness and air traffic management. Intelligence and Information Systems is focused on transforming data into knowledge by creating a global network-centric enterprise to share information in real-time.

The technical services division specializes in Mission Support, counter proliferation and counter-terrorism and also provides customized engineering services. Missile systems used for air-to-air strike, surface Navy, air defense, land combat missiles and other such requirements is designed and developed by Missile Systems division. Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems has the capability to develop airborne radars and processors, electro-optic/infrared(EO/IR) sensors, space and missile defense technology and also serves the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance(ISR) systems.

Raytheons Strategic Business Areas provide Homeland Security services dealing with protecting the people, resources, infrastructure from terrorist threats and natural disasters. The Precision Engagement Strategic Business area allows the clients to identify capability gaps and mission solutions. It offers solution in information dominance and greater situational awareness, a broad range of precision effects in any weather along with other services.

Missile Defense is another area that provides knowledge about the functioning of Ballistic Missile Defense System. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance(ISR) is another important strategic business area for the company and supplies products in this sector as well. Operating in more than 70 countries with offices in 18 countries, Raytheon has remained a leader in defense, homeland security and other government markets for over 80 years. It provides services to clients like US Missile Defense Agency, US Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland Security.
In 1922, at Cambridge Massachusetts, Lawrence K.Marshall, an engineer, businessman and trained physicist along with Vannevar Bush, a scientist and professor of electrical engineering, started Raytheon company as the American Appliance Company along with Charles G.Smith, a scientist. A gaseous tube that allowed radios to operate without batteries but with electricity launched the companys success and made radios affordable and accessible.

Since then, Raytheon has provided things like the 1st commercial microwave oven, miniature tubes for hearing aids, the 1st successful missile guidance system along with numerous other products. And the company now is a leading provider of defense and non-defense mission systems. Raytheon