After 45 years of doing business in the Goleta Valley, Raytheon continues to be a strong member of the local business community. Raytheon's business operations in Goleta provide development, design, and production of state-of-the-art government and commercial electronics and electro-optical products. Included among these products are selfprotection systems for military aircraft and ships; infrared detectors and subsystems for surveillance, target acquisition, and scientific applications; and space instruments for earth remote sensing and planetary exploration missions. These systems are deployed on a variety of combat vehicles, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft.

In all, the three Raytheon organizations in Goleta — Vision Systems, Electronic Warfare Systems, and Santa Barbara Remote Sensing — do business in more than 30 countries around the world, achieve annual revenues typically exceeding $500 million, and maintain an employee population of approximately 1,900.

Raytheon Goleta prides itself on offering a prestigious, creative, hightechnology atmosphere backed by the resources of the Raytheon Company. Raytheon Company, with 2004 sales of $20.2 billion, is an industry leader in defense, government, and commercial 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. The relatively small size of the local organizations enables a highly flexible, dynamic workforce comprised of a wide range of technological expertise.

At Raytheon, we've built our success on the technological and scientific achievements of our peopleand we know the way to maintain this success is by encouraging continuing education and professional development. Toward that end, Raytheon has developed an extensive set of education and training programs for employees, from in- house seminars to full time graduate-level programs on company fellowships.