Raytheon Wins $5M Maryland Procurement Office SOA Cross-Domain Security Solution Deal

June 24, 2009

Raytheon has received a $5 million contract from the Maryland Procurement Office to create a Distributed Services (Architecture) Cross Domain Service.

The proof-of-concept contract will connect two formerly discordant concepts - "open" service-oriented architectures and "closed" cross-domain guard solutions - across the intelligence community, operating at multiple security levels.

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are open frameworks that provide methods for systems development and integration in which systems package functionality as interoperable services. Guards provide a restrictive network interface that protect against the undesired release of sensitive data between security classification levels. Raytheon will leverage its expertise in both guards (with its High-Speed Guard system) and SOAs to provide an enterprise-capable, SOA-compatible, cross-domain solution.

"We have provided pieces of this solution for our Department of Defense customer, and now we are taking our expertise a bit further to apply this solution to a more complex concern of our customer," said Steve Hawkins, vice president of Raytheon Information Security Solutions. "Raytheon will provide service-oriented architecture cross-domain solutions to enable open system development."

Raytheon was one of only two vendors chosen for this proof-of-concept contract. A follow-on prototype-development solicitation is anticipated after a 12-month period of performance.