Raytheon to Demonstrate IED Training Simulation

(Washington, September 30, 2009) -- A Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN)-led IED training team will be demonstrating its new improvised explosive device simulation solution during the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition.

The AUSA event will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., Oct. 5-7, 2009. Raytheon's booth is No. 2603.

As casualties in Afghanistan due to IEDs continue to increase, the need for improved pre-deployment training has become paramount. The Raytheon team has designed a portable, fully immersive, IED training platform that uses commercially available, off-the-shelf components to provide accurate, real-time, live-soldier simulation. Because the configuration is flexible, individuals, teams and even full units can be trained simultaneously.

The Raytheon team is part of the company's IED Defeat Task Force commissioned in 2006 by Raytheon Chairman and CEO William H. Swanson. The task force's goal is to identify and field technology and training solutions designed to defeat IEDs.

In addition to the IED simulation demonstration, which will occur in the Raytheon booth throughout the exposition, retired Army Lt. Gen. Jim Riley, Raytheon Missile Systems vice president of Land Combat, will brief the media Oct. 6 at 8 a.m. The briefing will take place in room 101 of the Convention Center. Riley will cover the role of precision on the current battlefield, and how Raytheon is evolving legacy weapons and developing new ones to meet the brigade combat teams' needs.

Source : Raytheon Corporation (NYSE: RTN)