| Acquired by | Raytheon |
| Price | $350M |
| Date | 10/09 |
| Website | bbn.com |
| Category | Enterprise |
| Phone | 617-873-8000 |
| Employees | |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Description | Technology Liscensing |
| RAMP Holdings | 5/09 |
| TOTAL | $16M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $16M |
| Venture Round, 4/04 Accel Partners General Catalyst Partners | |
| Venture Round, 10/09 | $10.5M |
| Venture Round, 1/12 | $5.5M |
Started in 1948 by MIT professors, BBN Technologies has churned out technologies ranging from packet switching (1969) to the first network email (1971) to the first router (1976). The legendary R&D organization changed hands several times, most recently being acquired by Raytheon on September 1, 2009, following a management-led buyout from Verizon five years earlier. With expertise spanning information security, speech and language processing, networking, distributed systems, and sensing and control systems, BBN scientists and engineers have amassed a substantial collection of innovations and patented solutions.
