Raytheon BBN

Raytheon BBN
Company type	Subsidiary
Founded	1948
Founder	Leo Beranek and Richard Bolt
Headquarters	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Parent	RTX Corporation
Website	www.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.

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

[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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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