Raytheon Company

Raytheon Company, doing business as Raytheon, is a large aerospace and defense manufacturer that operates as a prime contractor on space technology, satellite operations, and defense systems programs for the Department of the Air Force, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and NASA, with a secondary subcontractor role supporting Boeing and Peraton on satellite communications sustainment work. Raytheon competes without small business set-asides on complex, high-dollar defense and civilian space programs.

Raytheon is a child entity of RTX Corp, headquartered in Aurora, Colorado, classified primarily under NAICS 334220 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and PSC 4413 (Maint/Repair/Rebuild Of Equipment—Aircraft Components And Accessories), reflecting its core aerospace supply and systems integration footprint. The company manufactures satellite components, communications equipment, and space-based systems for federal customers.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward space and satellite programs. The top two funding agencies account for all recent potential value: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration holds 5 awards valued at $4.65 billion combined potential value (61% of the overall portfolio), anchored by a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $395.8 million awarded July 1, 2026, to provide satellite command and operations systems supporting the Space Weather Next program with a base period through April 2031 and option period through April 2036. The Department of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center holds 21 awards valued at $2.95 billion combined potential value (38% of the portfolio). These two customers dominate dollars while the Air Force command dominates award count, a signal that NOAA work carries larger individual task order values. The Department of the Air Force (not Space Command), NASA Goddard, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard round out the customer set.

Recent prime contract work reflects Raytheon's space systems and research portfolio. Representative awards include a $145.7 million Other Transaction Agreement from the Air Force (February 22, 2023, ultimate completion March 17, 2028) for development of the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer Fifth Plane, a space command and control prototype and R&D effort performed in Aurora; a $949,620 definitive contract from the Air Force (February 6, 2023) for a 90-day engineering study in support of the Space Development Agency's Tranche 2 Ground, Management, and Integration Layer (subcontractor: Infinity Systems Engineering, LLC); a $911,240 firm-fixed-price Broad Agency Announcement Tier 1 contract from NOAA and the National Weather Service (October 1, 2025, completion June 30, 2026) for weather radar technology exploration aimed at replacing the aging NEXRAD radar system; and a $249,045 purchase order from the U.S. Geological Survey (February 8, 2024) for industry studies supporting the Landsat Next Mission Operations Center. Raytheon also holds a $200 million Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center IDV for conceptual studies and preliminary research in offensive and defensive space control, space command and control, and space domain awareness, from which two task orders totaling $54 thousand have been placed.

Activity has been episodic over the source period — five awards in 2021 to a low of three in 2026 (through early July) — with five awards valued at $1.28 billion combined potential value reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure. The largest recompete exposure is the Space Development Agency Tranche 2 GMI program and related space control architecture work with the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center.

On the subcontractor side, Raytheon subcontracts to Boeing on Wideband Global Satellite Communications (WGSC) and WGSC Block II Follow-On aerospace support work, with six documented task orders spanning December 2023 through September 2025, and to Peraton Inc. on space communications network integration and unification efforts at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Exploration and Space Communications Projects Division (two documented task orders: July 28, 2025, and March 30, 2026). The SCI dataset shows negligible service-contract reporting activity (two sub records across FY2022–FY2024, totaling 1.6 FTEs), indicating that Raytheon's federal work is predominantly goods-based, R&D, or classified and falls outside SCI's service-contract reporting threshold.