Disaster Relief
In 2005, Raytheon responded to the devastation inflicted by the South Asian tsunami, the U.S. hurricanes and the Pakistan earthquake.

In addition to our commitment to the American Red Cross of $1 million over five years, Raytheon and its employees gave nearly $100,000 to the International Red Cross in 2005 to support the South Asian tsunami recovery efforts.

The 2005 hurricane season, the most active in recorded history, brought 26 named storms, 13 hurricanes, three Category 5 hurricanes and four major hurricanes to the United States. Raytheon employees responded by making one of the largest commitments of financial support to a single cause in the company’s history. Employees committed $790,000 to relief efforts, which the company pledged to match in our first-ever matching gifts initiative for disaster relief. Total Raytheon giving from all sources in support of the hurricane victims will surpass $1.8 million.

Raytheon and its employees also supported the rescue and recovery efforts after the disasters with technology. Three of Raytheon’s First Responder vehicles, donated to the American Red Cross in 2004, assisted with hurricane relief efforts. The vehicles enabled a coordinated rescue effort among different agencies in areas that had seen communications virtually knocked out. Raytheon employees on the ground in New Orleans also provided valuable satellite uplink capability to U.S. task force efforts dedicated to Katrina disaster recovery. A company-led team implemented global broadcast service satellite technology to provide surveillance video and images of the disaster area to leaders of the recovery mission, including the U.S. Joint Task Force Katrina commander; U.S. Northern Command commander; the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force; and other civilian and public service agencies.

The company also raised the grant limit of the Raytheon Employee Disaster Relief Fund from $2,500 to $10,000 in response to the personal and financial loss many Raytheon employees suffered from the hurricanes. As a result, the fund distributed 83 grants totaling more than $300,000 to aid employee families affected by the hurricanes. The Raytheon Employee Disaster Relief Fund makes grants for general disaster relief and to employees who have faced catastrophic events. Through this fund, Raytheon and its employees join together to alleviate suffering caused by devastating events.

In the fourth quarter, Raytheon and the Employee Disaster Relief Fund pledged another $100,000 in relief efforts, this time to support those affected by the Pakistan earthquake. Additionally, all new gifts made between Dec. 15, 2005, and Feb. 1, 2006, to the Raytheon Employee Disaster Relief Fund were contributed to the Pakistan earthquake relief effort.

Math and Science Education
As a company of scientists, engineers and mathematicians, Raytheon has an obligation and a responsibility to share our enthusiasm for innovation and nurture this drive for discovery in the next generation. Currently, American middle school students have the opportunity to perform better in math. A Raytheon-sponsored survey shows that a majority of America’s sixth-to-eighth grade students (67 percent) want to do better in math, while an overwhelming number (94 percent) say doing well in math is important to them. This presents an opportunity for Raytheon to make a difference.

We are taking a positive, proactive approach to increasing the interest in math and science at the middle school level in the United States through our new national education initiative, MathMovesU. This is a long-term commitment that we believe will have lasting effects on our industry. MathMovesU invites America’s middle school students to look at math from exciting perspectives and through activities that interest them the most, such as skateboarding, video gaming and roller coaster physics. This student-focused campaign, which uses well-known role models to promote the “cool” aspects of math and science, reaches young people during this pivotal stage of their academic career through the Web, in school and in the communities where we live and work. We are also offering $1 million in scholarships and grants to students, teachers, schools and nonprofit organizations. Weekly prizes and details are available at www.MathMovesU.com.

Separately, Raytheon awarded more than $400,000 in college scholarships to 350 children of Raytheon employees and 40 students of the FIRST Robotics program. The Raytheon Scholars program supports a wide range of educational options, including vocational and technical training, and associate and bachelor’s degrees. Scholarships are offered for full-time study at an accredited institution of the student’s choice. The FIRST Robotics scholarships are awarded to students who participate on FIRST Robotics teams.

Raytheon Systems Limited (RSL) in the U.K. is also seeking to increase interest among schoolchildren in math and science with the 2005 launch of its RESET (Raytheon Elementary School Engineering) initiative designed to improve science, technology, math and engineering education in schools surrounding Raytheon’s U.K. facilities. Additionally, RSL sponsors the Professor Bonkers Science Show, a theater production that visits schools around the U.K. to teach children that “science rocks.”

MathMovesU
To launch MathMovesU, Raytheon partnered with BMX bike champion Dave Mirra to show middle school students how math is used in unexpected ways. With a mayoral proclamation making Nov. 10, 2005, “Make Math Fun Day,” Mirra surprised 200 students at the Manhattan Lab School in New York City. He showed them his bike tricks and explained how math figures into his sport. Mirra walked the students through a math problem related to BMX biking and encouraged them to visit www.MathMovesU.com to solve more math problems related to celebrities like skateboarder Tony Hawk and soccer star Mia Hamm and win great prizes.

Education Alley
For young scholars, their parents and teachers, Education Alley was the place to be at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Space 2005 Conference and Exposition from Aug. 30, 2005, to Sept. 1, 2005, in Long Beach, Calif. Sponsored by Raytheon, Education Alley featured science experiments, space technology demos and exhibits, a virtual visit to the South Pole, games and celebrity guests to make math cool to students.

Raytheon kicked off Education Alley activities on Aug. 30 with special guest Boston Celtics basketball legend Bill Russell. The 11-time NBA champion shared with the kids why he thinks math is cool. Other celebrities who lent their support to the event were actor Nicholas Gonzalez of The OC, Anthony Miller of the San Diego Chargers football team and Fuzzy Fantabulous, Los Angeles Power 106 FM radio personality.

A highlight of the Aug. 30 learning activities was the introduction of Raytheon’s Lunar Penguin — a small, unmanned vehicle that could be exploring the moon by 2009. As part of the exhibit, live Arctic penguins visited the Raytheon booth and were a big hit with the kids. Also featured was “Marvels of Motion,” a presentation by Mad Science of Los Angeles that demonstrated Newton’s laws of motion.