The Navy has awarded Raytheon an initial $17 million contract to upgrade the service's low-earth orbit space object tracking system, the company announced today. With options, the award has a potential value of $396 million through 2010, Raytheon said. Raytheon beat out teams from ITT, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin for the contract to upgrade the Naval Space Surveillance System -- known as the "Space Fence" -- according to a company statement. Work will be performed in Andover and Sudbury,...
