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title: "Raytheon: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with manufacturing concentrations in weapons, military, and commercial electronics."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-raytheon
type: Organization
wikidata: Q156644
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Raytheon

> S. defense contractor and industrial corporation with manufacturing concentrations in weapons, military, and commercial electronics.

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## Facts

- Category: Security and defense
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1922-07-07
- Dissolved: 2020-04-03
- Headquarters: Waltham
- Status: closed
- Employees: 70,000 (as of 2019-01-01)
- Also known as: Raytheon Company, The Raytheon Company, Raytheon Co.
- Industries: aerospace industry

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/Raytheon
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Raytheon
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raytheoncompany

## Key people

- Vannevar Bush, founder (American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974))
- Thomas Kennedy, chief executive (American business executive, President of Raytheon)
- William H. Swanson, director (American businessman)
- Mike Garcia (U.S. Representative from California)
- Don Valentine (American venture capitalist (1932–2019))
- Harold Geneen (American businessman (1910-1997))
- Elsie Shutt (ORDVAC programmer)
- Wallace H. Coulter (American electrical engineer (1913-1998))
- Arthur Rubin (mathematician)
- Jack Ryan (American designer (1926-1991))
- Eric Migicovsky (Canadian engineer and businessman)
- Frank Jimenez (American lawyer)

## Revenue

- undated: USD 24.1 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 25.3 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 27.1 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 29.2 billion (SEC filing)
- 2013-01-01: USD 23.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: USD 25.3 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Caedmon Audio, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Anschütz, Raytheon (United Kingdom), Raytheon (Germany), Raytheon, Space and Information Systems Division

## Products

- MIM-104 Patriot

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Raytheon, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-raytheon#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156644, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001047122

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