WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The Raytheon Company has won a $35.8 million modification contract for software support to Qatar’s Patriot ballistic missile defense program, the US Department of Defense announced.
“Raytheon Co., Andover, Massachusetts, was awarded a $35,832,321 modification to foreign military sales contract for software support to Qatar’s Patriot program,” the announcement stated on Tuesday.
Work will be performed in Andover and Burlington, Massachusetts; Farmington Hills, Michigan; Versailles, Ohio; Lawton, Oklahoma; and El Paso, Texas, with an estimated completion date of September 30, 2020, the announcement added.
The announcement came a day after the Defense Department announced that Lockheed Martin would sell almost $1.1 billion worth of new Patriot PAC-3 interceptors to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and South Korea.
