Raytheon BBN

Raytheon BBN
Company typeSubsidiary
Founded1948; 76 years ago (1948)
FounderLeo Beranek and Richard Bolt
HeadquartersCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
ParentRTX Corporation
Websitewww.rtx.com/who-we-are/we-are-rtx/transformative-technologies/bbn

Raytheon BBN (originally Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.) is an American research and development company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.[1]

In 1966, the Franklin Institute awarded the firm the Frank P. Brown Medal, in 1999 BBN received the IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition, and on 1 February 2013, BBN was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors that the U.S. government bestows upon scientists, engineers and inventors, by President Barack Obama.[2] It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon in 2009.

  1. ^ "BBN Corp.", International Directory of Company Histories
  2. ^ "President Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators". whitehouse.gov. 21 December 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013 – via National Archives. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.