WASHINGTON – Jon C. Jones, vice president of Raytheon Co. and president of Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, died March 6 of an apparent heart attack, the company said in a press release. He was 55.

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Warren Ferster is the Editor-in-Chief of SpaceNews and is responsible for all the news and editorial coverage in the weekly newspaper, the spacenews.com Web site and variety of specialty publications such as show dailies. He manages a staff of seven reporters...