Integrated Systems, Tools and Metrics

In every mission, multiple systems must work seamlessly together to meet a common goal. Through Mission Systems Integration, Raytheon uses its broad domain knowledge and advanced systems engineering capabilities to identify, synthesize and deliver all the elements to meet customers' urgent mission needs. In the same way, we take an integrated approach to the internal challenges of developing, manufacturing and supporting the systems and solutions our customers will depend on. We drive this approach by utilizing our core Integrated Product Development System process and a combination of proprietary tools and internal and external metrics, including:

• Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI): This process improvement model established by the government, industry and the Software Engineering Institute provides a framework for organizations to create common processes that can drive consistent, predictable, cost-effective results. In 2007, Raytheon's Network Centric Systems became the first organization in Raytheon and one of the first organizations in the world to receive the highest maturity rating of CMMI Level 5 on an enterprise-wide basis.
• Raytheon Certified Architect Program: Since 2004, Raytheon has been training and certifying system architects to meet the emerging design challenges of next-generation, net-centric mission-based solutions. Raytheon's Information Architecture curriculum exposes students to the full range of military, civilian and industry frameworks for developing and evaluating system architecture, giving them new ways of thinking about systems in support of customers' long-term transformational goals.
• Raytheon Six Sigma (R6σ®): This integrated knowledge-based management system is our primary vehicle for increasing productivity, growing the business and creating a customer-focused culture that embraces teamwork and continuous improvement. Through benchmarking, cultivation of best practices and bringing people together for training and transformation, R6σ empowers Raytheon businesses to maximize value to customers.

Where appropriate, we encourage employees to apply their expertise to challenges outside our organization. In 2007, a Raytheon team brought R6σ disciplines to a Rhode Island retreat focused on helping people with disabilities overcome barriers to employment. The event was hosted by Rhodes to Independence, a regional nonprofit, in conjunction with the University of Rhode Island's College of Pharmacy. Participants included educators, service providers and policy makers, among them the first and only quadriplegic elected to Congress, a representative from Rhode Island.