LOS ANGELES, March 8 (UPI) -- Raytheon Co.'s planned Public Safety Regional Technology Center will be in Downey, Calif., in the greater Los Angeles area.
The company said the selection of Downey allows for easy access by public safety professionals to test and certify current and future technologies.
"This latest investment, along with the UCLA Center for Public Safety Network Systems announced earlier this year, further underscores Raytheon's commitment to the public safety market and the region," said Dan Crowley, president, Raytheon Network Centric Systems.
"This latest investment, along with the UCLA Center for Public Safety Network Systems announced earlier this year, further underscores Raytheon's commitment to the public safety market and the region."
Raytheon's Public Safety Regional Technology Center will establish a research capability tailored to public safety needs and will include a consortium of communications experts from academia, industry and public safety agencies. The team will be dedicated to independently verifying future technologies for integration into open architecture, standards-based systems, validating backward compatibility with legacy systems, and testing proposed public safety technologies.
Raytheon said it plans to open the center within three months.
