Six companies have secured contracts worth potentially $40 million combined to help NASA’s Ames Research Center develop rotorcraft vertical lift technologies. Tasks under the five-year hybrid contracts are scheduled to commence on Tuesday and will continue through Dec. 20, 2026, the space agency said Wednesday. Contractors will provide resourc...
Naval Air Systems Command awarded Pratt and Whitney‘s military engines business a $145.3 million contract modification to procure depot support equipment and supplies for the F-35 program. NAVAIR exercised options on a previously awarded contract to the Raytheon Technologies subsidiary supporting fighter aircraft sustainment work for both dome...
Matthew Bromberg, most recently president of the military engines business at Raytheon Technologiesâ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary, has been appointed to serve as corporate vice president of global operations at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). He will assume his new position on Feb. 16 and will oversee Northropâs programs, quality, su...
Raja Maharajh, most recently chief of staff to Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) Chairman and CEO Greg Hayes, has been appointed general counsel of the Waltham, Massachusetts-based defense and aerospace company. He succeeds Frank Jimenez and will oversee legal and regulatory functions that include corporate governance and transactions, litigation, c...
Vertex Aerospace has closed its acquisition of Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) defense training and mission critical solutions business. The transaction was first announced in September and Ed Boyington, president and CEO of Vertex, said in a statement published Tuesday the acquisition supports the companyâs strategy to deliver a comprehe...
Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been appointed chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association’s board of governors for 2022. He will also serve on the association’s executive committee along with Spirit AeroSystems President and CEO Tom Gentile, who is set...
Jill Albertelli, formerly the senior vice president of transformation and strategy at Raytheon Technologiesâ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business, has been named president of the subsidiary’s military engines organization. She succeeds Matthew Bromberg, who has held the role since 2017 and led F135 engine program implementation efforts f...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a $273.4 million contract modification to expand its support services for a new U.S. Navy radar system being produced to help the military service detect adversarial aircraft and missile threats. The company will provide laboratory generator support for the Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar and ...
A new McAleese & Associates report says major defense prime contractors recorded a 4 percent to 6 percent increase in sector profit during the third quarter of 2021. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, presented an analysis of the Q3 financial performance of Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYS...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) have received other transaction agreements from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop their Glide Phase Interceptor design concepts for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile defense program. MDA said Friday prototypes that will emerge through th...
