Raytheon Co., which has operations in several locations around Massachusetts, will make $10.4 million worth of infrared sensor systems in Andover and Alabama.
The company was awarded the contract with the U.S. Army “to meet the Army’s increasing needs for persistent surveillance” in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The system Raytheon produces is called the Rapid Aerostat Initial Deployment (RAID) system by the Army. It an infrared sensor system mounted on a stationary platform, and is able to detect hostile forces at great distances.
The contract requires Raytheon to make 150 of the RAID systems through 2008.
The systems will be made at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems’ Integrated Air Defense Center in Andover, and at the company’s Warfighter Protection Center in Huntsville, Ala.
