Military Aerospace:
WASHINGTON – Missile designers at Raytheon Co. will provide the U.S. Navy with shipboard air-defense missiles under terms of an order announced Friday potentially worth more than a half-billion dollars.
Officials of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington announced a $395.5 million order to the Raytheon Missile Systems segment in Tucson, Ariz., to build additional Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) systems. The order has options that could increase its value to $579.7 million.
The SM-6, also called the RIM-174 Standard Extended Range Active Missile (ERAM), is deployed on Navy cruisers and destroyers to provide air defense against enemy fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), land-attack anti-ship cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles in their terminal phases over sea and land, Raytheon officials say.
