Excellence in Engineering
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Mission Assurance and NoDoubt performance, values essential to Raytheon's operational and financial success, are also integral to our citizenship commitment. Our Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance team works aggressively at every organizational level to improve our products and processes. We drive this approach with a broad range of proprietary tools and internal and external metrics, including:

Raytheon Six Sigma (R6σ®)

R6σ is our disciplined, knowledge-based approach designed to increase productivity, grow the business, enhance customer satisfaction and build a company culture that embraces all of these goals. Currently, we have more than 1,050 trained R6σ Experts and approximately 47,400 qualified R6σ Specialists.

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI®)

Raytheon continues to drive this nationally recognized process improvement measurement approach throughout the company. The CMMI model provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes, as established by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) for process maturity in hardware, systems and software engineering. In 2008, Raytheon's Integrated Defense Systems business unit achieved CMMI’s highest rating, Level 5, joining Raytheon Network Centric Systems, which reached the milestone the previous year.