"It's not like going from, say, refrigerators to cruise missiles" Raytheon didn't suddenly jump or "pivot"from domestic appliances to missiles. They acquired

"It's not like going from, say, refrigerators to cruise missiles" Raytheon didn't suddenly jump or "pivot"from domestic appliances to missiles. They acquired Hughes Aircraft and its 40,000 employees of expertise in the mid-1990s, by which time Raytheon was involved in nuclear power, general aviation ( Beech Aircraft ), polymers, pharma... Hughes brought with it the major 'brands' of Tomahawk and AMRAAM.