The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded Raytheon an $83 million contract to support the government's Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the company announced in a statement yesterday. The contract, which includes a one-year base period followed by four one-year options, will help the CTR program reduce the number of weapons of mass destruction in the countries of the former Soviet Union, Raytheon said. The company has been providing logistics support to CTR projects since 1994, specifically for transportation, storage, safeguarding...