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Take Your Kids to Work 2007
For Immediate Release
05/14/2007
FULTON, Maryland (April 26, 2007) – Solipsys, a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) subsidiary, recently hosted "Bring Your Child to Work Day." Eighteen children between the ages of eight and fifteen participated in the event. Planned activities were held in the morning, with children shadowing their parents in the afternoon.
The morning's activities started with breakfast and a "Welcome" address by Raytheon Solipsys President Mark Trenor. "The whole concept of 'Take Your Child to Work' is an outstanding idea -- on multiple levels," stated Mr. Trenor, "The opportunity to establish a connection to the workplace and provide context for our families is fabulous, and I know it's greatly appreciated by the kids that we were able to host in April."
After breakfast the children learned about security through a fingerprinting activity that exposed them to the different uses for fingerprints in maintaining proper facility security. As well they had their pictures taken and were given honorary employee badges as a souvenir.
A Raytheon Solipsys' Modular Command Post System (MCPS) was erected and the children were also given an interactive demonstration of the Tactical Display Framework (TDF) product. Following the MCPS activity, the program management group taught the children about interpreting requirements, identifying scope, adhering to a program's budget, and customer interaction with an exercise building terrariums.
Children had the opportunity to interview Solipsys employees about their careers in a conversation café activity. To round out the morning's activities, children, parents and employees were treated to a lunch and children received a Solipsys goodie bag.
Raytheon Solipsys' main office is located in Fulton, Md., between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. It employs 170 people and also has offices in Hampton, Va., and Lihue and Waimea, Hawaii.
Raytheon Solipsys, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), is part of Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Raytheon's leader in Joint Battlespace Integration providing affordable, integrated solutions to a broad international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland Security.
Raytheon Company, with 2006 sales of $20.3 billion, is an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs more than 80,000 people worldwide.
