Operational Excellence

	Shingo Prize — Raytheon won two Shingo Prizes in 2007: Missile Systems’ Louisville, Ky., facility earned a National Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing, and Integrated Defense Systems’ Maritime Mission Center in Portsmouth, R.I., received a Northeast Shingo Gold Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing.
	CMMI® Level 5 — Network Centric Systems became one of the first organizations in the world to receive this prestigious process improvement award on an enterprise-wide basis. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a government/industry framework for engineering process development; Level 5 is CMMI’s highest level of recognition for process maturity.