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duration of the New Horizons exercise. A food bank is defined
“We do a head to toe examination, eval- From CYBER, Page 24 as “a public or private
charitable institution that
uation of the patient, in doing this we are Jack Harrington, vice president of cybersecurity and special maintains an established
trying to decipher who is the most critical missions at Raytheon. operation involving the
patient, who needs the attention first,” said provision of food or edible
Jones, “it needs to be done quickly, but “Raytheon brings additional technical depths that we can le- commodities, or the prod-
it also needs to be complete. This differs verage for our customers and their missions,” said Doug Less- ucts of food or edible com-
from seeing someone in the clinic where ley, a program manager at RBT. modities, to food pantries,
patients are being referred and you are soup kitchens, hunger re-
able to do a good work up and diagnose RBT will be better positioned to win large contracts because lief centers, or other food
the problem and schedule the surgery of the resources and overall experience of a large defense con- or feeding centers that, as
electively, for a time that works best for tractor like Raytheon. RBT has established customers that Ray- an integral part of their
the patient and the doctor. We approach theon didn’t previously enjoy. Raytheon can offer a wider array normal activities, provide
it a little differently... but [during] triaging of capabilities and services for more comprehensive contracts. meals or food to feed needy
we do a complete physical exam.” persons on a regular basis.”
The RBT team is also collaborating with other Raytheon
The exact cause of the incident is still groups to seek U.S. government agency programs to broaden This system differs
under investigation at this time. their computer network defense capabilities. Raytheon and from the annual USDA
RBT together are well-positioned for such programs because sponsored Feds Feed
New Horizons was launched in the of Raytheon’s capabilities across the enterprise and RBT’s deep Families campaign that
1980s and is an annual joint humanitar- cyber products strengths. runs June through Oc-
ian assistance exercise that U.S. Southern tober. With Feds Feed
Command conducts with a partner nation Raytheon is placing big bets on its growing cybersecurity Families, commissaries
in Central America, South America or the business, having invested $3.5 billion to date in acquisitions serve as collection points
Caribbean. The exercise improves joint and other development. Blackbird Technologies, which joined for their installations, and
training readiness of U.S. and partner na- Raytheon in November 2014, was the seventeenth cybersecuri- all donations come from
tion civil engineers, medical professionals ty company the defense contractor acquired in the last decade. DeCA customers.
and support personnel through humani-
tarian assistance activities. Earlier this year, Raytheon entered into a joint venture with
Websense. The new company will leverage Raytheon’s advanced
cybersecurity technologies and Websense’s industry leading
TRITON® platform to provide a new level of defense-grade cy-
bersecurity to combat the evolving cyber threat environment.
