[Satellite Today 06-24-09] Raytheon received a $5 million contract from the Maryland Procurement Office to create a distributed services architecture cross-domain service to connect open service-oriented architectures and closed cross-domain guard solutions across the U.S. intelligence community, Raytheon announced June 23.
    The architecture will be an enterprise-capable, SOA-compatible, cross-domain solution.
    "We have provided pieces of this solution for our [U.S.] Department of Defense customer, and now we are taking our expertise a bit further to apply this solution to a more complex concern of our customer," Steve Hawkins, vice president of Raytheon Information Security Solutions, said in a statement.
    Raytheon was one of only two vendors chosen for the contract. A prototype-development solicitation is anticipated after a 12-month period of performance, Raytheon said.