Raytheon Company provides technology solutions for defense, federal and commercial customers worldwide. The company specializes in mission support, engineering product solutions and engineering service solutions. Mission support-Raytheons integrated approach to providing total life-cycle support, predicting customer needs, sensing problems and proactively applying solutions-enables Raytheon to maintain readiness and deliver operational capability on demand, enhancing customer mission success. Raytheon Company, with annual sales of more than $20 billion, is an industry leader in defense and government electronics, space, information technology, technical services, and business and special mission aircraft. William H. Swanson has been the chief executive officer of Raytheon for more than three years. He has been with the company for over 34 years. Swanson earned a BS degree from California State Polytechnical University. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 80,000 people worldwide.