Raytheon Co. said Wednesday its BBN Technologies subsidiary has been awarded an additional $6.1 million in funding from a defense project to help troops rapidly translate foreign language text.

Under the contract, Cambridge-based BBN will further refine a prototype translation system developed under previous awards in the program.

The system is designed to be deployed on a laptop computer so that foreign language text images can be automatically converted into English transcripts, without the use of linguists and analysts. Examples include text images on road signs, flyers, photographs and handwritten notes.

See: Bloomberg