What Raytheon's nearly $2 billion cyber play means to its defense business
Raytheon Co.’s decision to make a $1.7 billion equity investment to stand up a cyber products company may be the boldest move made by any defense contractor to tap commercial opportunities. And it will mostly be at the exclusion of Pentagon business.
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) executives were quick to point to “cross-selling” opportunities for the new joint venture during a call with analysts Monday about the acquisition, given Raytheon’s cyber focus within the Dulles-based Intelligence, Information…