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MOROCCO SELECTS RAYTHEON TO PROVIDE NEW AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

RADAR SYSTEMS

HARLOW (16th October, 2003) - - - Raytheon Systems Limited (RSL) has just signed
a $7.5 million contract with the Kingdom of Morocco to provide three Monopulse Secondary
Surveillance Radar (MSSR) systems and associated civil works.

The three Level 2, Mode S, MSSR systems will be used to significantly upgrade
Morocco’s air traffic control service and are being funded by the African Development Bank.
One of the radars will be located at Oudja near the North east coast to provide airspace
control for traffic transiting the Western Mediterranean and traffic coming in from Europe,
another at Tan Tan in the South of the country and the third at El Jadida near the centre of
Morocco’s long Atlantic seaboard. These latter two systems will provide en route coverage
for North West Africa.

The three systems will be linked by microwave to the ATC centre at Nuasser, near
Casablanca. RSL’s contract, which also covers the erection and installation of the buildings,
towers and microwave links, is just part of a major modernisation of air traffic control
facilities throughout the country. Work is scheduled to last for 18 months.

Commenting on the contract win Jack Cronin, RSL’s Managing Director, said, “This
is a significant award for RSL and is in fact the third contract for our MSSR radar systems
that we have received in the space of a month. This reinforces RSL’s role as a key player in
this highly competitive market.”

Morocco becomes the 34th country to which RSL has sold MSSR radar systems.
 RSL, the UK-based subsidiary of Raytheon Company, employs around 1800 people.
The company is a prime contractor and major supplier to the UK Ministry of Defence. RSL
designs, develops and manufactures a range of high technology defence and commercial
electronics.

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), with 2002 sales of $16.8 billion, is an industry
leader in defence, government and commercial electronics, space, information technology,
technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in
Lexington, Massachusetts, Raytheon employs more than 76,000 people worldwide.

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Notes for Editors:

Morocco’s MSSR systems will be Mode S capable. For many years MSSR has been, and
continues to be, the key radar sensor used in air traffic control. It is what is known as a cooperating
system. That is, the aircraft has to carry a “transponder” that is “interrogated” by a ground station that
asks, “who are you”? The aircraft transponder replies with a unique code and height of the aircraft,
which is then subsequently displayed to the air traffic controller. Due to the increase in air traffic over
the years the 4096 unique codes (which are converted to the aircraft flight number by the ATC
equipment) sometimes get used up, particularly in dense traffic areas such as Europe and the USA.
This has been overcome by the use of Mode-S (“S” means “selective”) that permits the MSSR system
to selectively address each aircraft rather than all aircraft as is the case with older systems. Mode-S
includes a datalink capability and permits up to 16 million aircraft identities. Mode-S also overcomes
an interference problem known as “garbling” that corrupts aircraft identity and height information
replies.