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The website still looks like the TCL monster it has always been, so I doubt it. But I have no intimate knowledge of the inner workings there soon after the Raytheon buyout.

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Oh it is owned by Raytheon a huge listed company. That makes it more surprising that the communication is so bad. I'd expect a public company with market cap of $150b to have its act together regarding crisis communication.

It's part of Collins Aerospace which was bought by United Technologies which merged with Raytheon. Having been part of a merger with RTX, generally your IT systems change and that's about it. Most of management stays and as long as your group is hitting numbers, no one from RTX gives a shit what's going on. My guess if you called up RTX CEO and asked him for a comment about FlightAware, he's not aware he evens owns the site.

Also, Raytheon doesn't ever talk to the public. Most of the work is classified so yea, crisis communication involving the general public, internally, they are clueless.

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