The CEO of Defense Department contractor Raytheon said that the White House COVID-19 mandate will cause the firm to lose “several thousand” employees who will not take the vaccine. “We will lose several thousand people,” Raytheon Chief Executive Greg Hayes said during an interview Tuesday. He said that the company, which has about 125,000 workers in the United States, is carrying out staff hiring to deal with the potential problem. About 3 percent of the workers at the company, which manufactures Tomahawk missiles used by the United States and other militaries, won’t get the vaccine, he told CNBC. “It’s not just the prime contractors, but it’s also all of our subcontractors that need to follow that mandate as well,” Hayes also said during a conference call on the company’s third-quarter earnings. “This is not huge in the grand scheme of $64.5 billion in revenue, but there will be some expected …