embassy events 2008 

Polish Officers Visit Raytheon Facility

14 January 2008

MOD officers visit Raytheon in Arizona

Representatives of Poland's Ministry of Defense and Air Force recently visited Raytheon Missile Systems' facilities in Tucson, Arizona, to view assembly of defensive systems which Poland is procuring as part of the F-16 program.  The team was led by Colonel Andrzej Wąsiewicz, Director of the Ministry of Defense's F-16 Bureau, and by Colonel Cezary Wasser, Deputy Commander of the 1st Aviation Brigade.  Escorts included Colonel Stanley Prusinski, Chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation, and Major Chad "Brew" Meyering, of the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs.  Polish representatives were impressed by the capabilities of the systems and by the technologies that they observed.