Raytheon Bids for Two Major DoD Satellite Services Contracts
WALTHAM, MA, April 16, 2007 - Satnews Daily - The Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) is competing for two key U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) space programs: the next-generation Global Positioning System Control Segment (OCX) and Network and Space Operations & Maintenance (NSOM).
GPS OCX is a $160 million program to provide command, control, and mission support for current GPS Block II and future GPS Block III satellites with support to existing and new interfaces. The initial selection of two qualified competitors is scheduled for August 2007. The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center administers the OCX program.
NSOM, which will be administered by the Air Force Space Command's 50th Space Wing, will be executed over the next seven years. It will provide operations, maintenance and logistics support to a number of DoD space systems that include but are not limited to the defense satellite communications system earth terminals; MILSTAR earth terminals; data link terminals; Air Force satellite control network remote tracking stations; global positioning system ground antennas, monitor stations and the master control station.
The 50th Space Wing's Air Force Satellite Control Network, headquartered in Colorado Springs, is responsible for providing readiness, launch, early orbit/on-orbit support, and anomaly resolution for a variety of satellite constellations. NSOM will support this global, nationally critical network consisting of command and control systems, communications, antennas and support systems.
Raytheon’s NSOM teammates are Northrop Grumman Space & Mission System Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Sparta, Inc.; Infinity Systems Engineering, ITS, Integral Systems, Frontier Systems Integrators, Llc and Boecore.
Raytheon is competing against a Harris Corporation team for NSOM. The Harris team consists of Lockheed Martin Information Technology, L-3 Communications Titan Group, Faith Enterprises, Inc., ASRC Aerospace, Arctic Slope World Services, Nortel Government Solutions and Gunther Douglas
