We might not be a startup, but we offer the environment and feel of a young company with our primary investor being the parent organization. We work hard and play hard and the only thing that really matters is slinging code that makes a difference.

To achieve this, Raytheon is split into many niche skill areas, with their own opportunities, work environments, and cultures. Interest in participating with ReadyForce was initiated by the two units described below.

Raytheon-SI: Founded on the Florida beaches, our dress code is shorts or flip-flops but not both. We have been growing rapidly for the past 8 years and are now a 300 person organisation. We do some of the most advanced information or "cyber" security research on the planet, primarily for US government customers. Our team is comprised of people that have presented at every major security conference, have been core contributors to a laundry list of major open source projects, and integral parts of numerous successful commercial security ventures.

Raytheon-BBN is another, started in 1948 by MIT professors, BBN Technologies has churned out technologies ranging from packet switching (1969) to the first network email (1971) to the first router (1976). With expertise spanning information security, speech and language processing, networking, distributed systems, and sensing and control systems, BBN scientists and engineers have amassed a substantial collection of innovations and patented solutions.

Many other organisations exist and work together to solve some of the most challenging problems in computer science and cyber security.