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Article: Raytheon team wins air traffic control job Deal to upgrade US system put at $1b
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 17, 1996
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A team led by Raytheon Co. won a government contract yesterday to
upgrade the nation's aging air traffic control system, a deal that
could be worth $1 billion and will bring about 100 new engineering
jobs to Massachusetts.
Already a leading supplier of airport radar systems, Raytheon won
the job of replacing air traffic controllers' patchwork of
20-year-old equipment with new computers, displays and software at up
to 371 commercial and military airports.
Boston's Logan Airport was selected as the first of 172 commercial
airports to receive the new equipment, because its current systems
are the most overtaxed, officials said yesterday.
Installation is scheduled to be completed at Logan by ...