David Bradley, program director at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business since June 2021, has been promoted to a vice president position within the same unit. The 34-year industry veteran will be responsible for strategy and business development functions related to GDMS’ space and intelligence systems portfolio, accordin...
A team of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a five-year, $985.3 million contract to build and demonstrate an air-launched, scramjet-powered weapon system designed to operate at a speed greater than Mach 5. The service branch is obligating $100 million for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile procurement effor...
Brad Pedersen, a more than 35-year aerospace and defense industry veteran, has been named president and CEO of MD Helicopters following the acquisition of the company by an investment consortium led by MBIA Insurance and MB Global Partners. He brings to the role decades of leadership experience at aerospace and defense companies, including Boeing’...
The government of Poland has selected Boeing (NYSE: BA) to supply its AH-64E Apache aircraft for the Polish armed forces’ Kruk attack helicopter program. Boeing issued a statement Thursday saying the selection of its aircraft strengthens military ties between the U.S. and Poland by improving cooperation and interoperability between the U.S. Army, ...
The State Department has cleared Taiwan’s requests to procure AGM-84L-1 Harpoon Block II missiles, contract logistics support for the Surveillance Radar Program and AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder missiles under three foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $1.1 billion combined. Taiwan’s economic and cultural representative office requ...
Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business has received a pair of contracts worth $3.14 billion combined to manufacture a total of 19 KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft for the U.S. Air Force and Israel. USAF ordered 15 tankers along with data, subscriptions and licenses under a $2.2 billion lot eight production contract that will...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has won a five-year, $5.02 billion contract from the Missile Defense Agency to test, integrate and ensure readiness of the country’s Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system against potential ballistic missile attacks. The award covers physical and logical integration of the GMD element into the Ballistic Missile Defense System ...
Nicole Piasecki Kymeta has announced the appointment of aerospace industry veteran Nicole Piasecki to the board of directors and Fran Beaudette, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, to the board of advisers. Piasecki has more than 35 years of experience at Boeing (NYSE: BA) and United Technologies Corp. and her appointment comes following the ret...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been awarded a potential eight-year, $121.4 million contract to produce equipment for the U.S. Navy to deploy anti-submarine torpedoes from the P-8A maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft. The military branch will initially obligate $11.8 million on full-rate production services for the High-Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded five companies positions on a potential 10-year, $975 million contract to perform technology maturation and risk reduction work under a program that seeks to build prototypes of an adaptive engine for next-generation fighter aircraft. The awardees are General Electric’s (NYSE: GE) Edison Works business, Raytheon Tech...
