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Raytheon was established in 1922, reincorporated in 1928, and adopted the Raytheon Company name in 1959. More than 90% of Raytheon's revenues were obtained from military contracts and, as of 2012, it was the fifth-largest military contractor in the world. [4]
RTX Corporation, formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation, [3] [4] is an American multinational aerospace and defense conglomerate headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.It is one of the largest aerospace and defense manufacturers in the world by revenue and market capitalization, as well as one of the largest providers of intelligence services.
Raytheon acquired an 80% interest in Websense in April 2015 for $1.9 billion and acquired the remaining 20% interest in 2019. In 2015, Websense acquired network security vendor Stonesoft from Intel and in 2016, the company was renamed Forcepoint. Francisco Partners acquired the company from Raytheon successor RTX Corporation in January 2021.
Raytheon Technologies (RTX) is born as United Technologies' aerospace business and Raytheon Company combine. The resultant company will be one of the big players in the defense and government markets.
The combined company, valued at more than $100 billion after planned spinoffs, would be the world's second-largest aerospace-and-defense company by sales behind Boeing. [21] Although UTC was the nominal survivor, the merged company was headquartered at legacy Raytheon's former base in Waltham, Massachusetts. [22] The merger was completed in ...
Raytheon then owned TI's mercury cadmium telluride detector business and infrared (IR) systems group. In California, it also had Hughes infrared detector and an IR systems business. When again the US government forced Raytheon to divest itself of a duplicate capability, the company kept the TI IR systems business and the Hughes detector business.
Raytheon Technologies insiders own about US$119m worth of shares (which is 0.1% of the company). This kind of significant ownership by insiders does generally increase the chance that the company ...
On Wednesday, RTX Corporation (NYSE:RTX) said Raytheon has secured a three-year, two-phase contract from DARPA to develop foundational ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors. These will be based on ...