Date posted: 09/28/2007*

Raytheon Network Centric Systems’ (NCS) partnership with the U.S. Army on Improved Target Acquisition System (ITAS) Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) won the Department of Defense’s (DoD) 2007 Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics (PBL) Award in the Sub-System Level category.

The Secretary of Defense PBL Awards recognize outstanding government-industry partnerships at the system, subsystem and component level. Raytheon NCS’ partnership with the Army established a benchmark program for maintenance and Mission Support for the ITAS program. Against a requirement of 90 percent, the Raytheon ITAS CLS team achieved an average operational readiness rate of 99.7 percent for the Army's 782 ITAS. That performance, along with significant improvement in repair times, resulted in an estimated cost savings of nearly $300 million for the Army.

"We're very proud of the work done by the ITAS CLS team with the Army," said Glynn Raymer, vice president of Combat Systems at NCS. "This award recognizes our unwavering commitment to supporting our men and women in uniform, the outstanding combat readiness and performance of the ITAS, as well as our customer's satisfaction with the overall system."

NCS is in the first year of a ten-year, firm-fixed-price contract to provide performance-based logistics and Mission Support for this Army and Marine Corps tactical system. The contract requires Raytheon to provide worldwide logistics support to Army and Marine Corps operations at garrison locations, training centers and in combat operations around the world. The ITAS CLS program is managed out of Raytheon's McKinney, Texas facility with field service representatives located around the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan.

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