LANDOVER, Md. -- Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) was selected to provide information technology (IT) operations and maintenance to NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS). The five-year contract is valued at up to $500 million. EOS gathers, archives, and processes environmental earth observation data and then makes the data available to government and scientific communities. EOS serves more than two million users annually through a network of eight Distributed Active Archive Centers. Raytheon will maintain and operate hardware and software elements of EOS at Raytheon's Landover, Md., facility and on-site at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. "We look forward to building on our 10 years of close partnership with NASA to serve the information technology needs of the scientific community," said Thomas P. Anderson, vice president of Raytheon Information Solutions. "We have focused on our customer's long-term mission and created innovative solutions that continue to meet their most critical needs." The EOS contract is an example of the long-standing presence Raytheon has in the federal IT marketplace. Raytheon Information Solutions, the organization responsible for coordinating Raytheon's federal IT business activity, has identified seven critical marketplace needs and matched them with solution areas for which Raytheon has deep domain expertise. They are: Enterprise Modernization Solutions Modernizing systems through improved enterprise architectures, insertion of new technologies, facilitation of process improvement, innovative new data management approaches, and mission-focused operations and maintenance. High Performance Data Solutions Accomplishing large-scale science, research, weather, and health-related missions through high performance computing, high volume storage, distributed database management, advanced algorithm development, scientific visualization, and innovative simulation. Knowledge Management Solutions Providing actionable information through sharing, collecting, and handling large amounts of data, deriving knowledge through complex linkages, and distributing appropriate, valuable, decision-oriented information. Security Solutions Protecting agencies' assets and the security of the homeland through information assurance, physical and logical access control systems, vulnerability assessments and risk mitigation, identification and verification systems. E-Government Solutions Facilitating new, citizen-centric missions and electronic transactions through web-enabled, information management solutions. Logistics Information Solutions Providing physical and data asset management, supply chain management, and logistics support to maximize mission performance, efficiency, visibility, and productivity. Infrastructure Management Solutions Reducing risk, maximizing investment, and increasing efficiency through mission-success-oriented help desk, call centers, resource management, application development, and other related IT support services. This framework provides Raytheon with the mechanism to bring together the very best technologies and match them with critical customer needs.