Raytheon är en stor spelare i det amerikanska militärindustriella komplexet. De tillverkar till exempel Tomahawkmissiler, men vill nu bredda sig mot inhemsk säkerhet, som man ser som en expansiv marknad:
”WITHIN days of the terror attacks in September 2001, Raytheon announced Project Yankee, a companywide effort to determine how its military expertise and products might be converted to use in domestic counterterrorism. In June, the company took the next step, formally creating a new division based in Falls Church, Va., outside Washington, to oversee its domestic-security business.
Its first major product is now arriving on the market, a $250,000 command-and-control vehicle called the First Responder, which is a Chevy Suburban sport utility vehicle packed with communications equipment and antennas allowing emergency-response agencies to communicate with one another even if they use different radio frequencies.” Läs mer på NY Times. [Länk via Boingboing.]
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