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The awards come nearly seven months after the U.S. Air Force selected Raytheon for the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM) operational prototyping program.

The industry team will build and test an airbreathing propulsion subsystem for the proposed DeepStrike-Extended Range concept.

The agency’s fiscal 2024 budget request includes funding for 27 Raytheon SM-3 Block 1B missiles, but then production will stop as upgrades continue.

KHI began research and development of its high energy laser in 2018 at the request of the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency.

The U.S. Air Force and Navy are using new congressional authorities to buy Raytheon AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM).

The Army eventually plans to buy its own jets to carry HADES, but will first deploy the payload on contractor-owned and operated business jet-class aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force is focusing heavily on maritime strike as it looks toward the Pacific with a need for munitions.

Advanced battery producer American Lithium Energy has secured $13.2 million in funding to expand its U.S.-based manufacturing capacity.

A plan emerges to establish weapons-making capacity in Australia, starting with perhaps a new production order for Ukraine.

The satellites are to be part of the U.S. Space Force’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

A U.S./Israel team plans to propose the Skyceptor air defense system for Australia’s medium-range surface-to-air missile program.

Reliability-induced Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engine availability headaches are likely to last all year, Raytheon's top executive warns.

Ukraine is not likely to see many of the high-end air defense systems the West has pledged for several months to years.

The market survey request comes out two weeks after USAF fighters shot down a Chinese high-altitude balloon with apparent surveillance systems aboard.

Defensive preparations in the center of Moscow perhaps reveal a new Russian respect for homegrown weapons being fielded by Ukraine.

Dealmakers in mergers and acquisitions who focus on the aerospace and defense industries are expecting a healthy year ahead for what they do.

Raytheon Technologies will merge its two defense divisions under the Raytheon brand.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley announced the latest tranche of military equipment for Ukraine.

The U.S. will send up to $2.5 billion more in military aid for Ukraine.

The Super Tier 1 and defense prime contractor is consolidating several activities in Bengaluru, India.

Former Boeing defense and space leader Leanne Caret has joined the board of directors of Raytheon Technologies.

Stratospheric balloon operator World View will aim to become a publicly listed company via a reverse-merger deal with Leo Holdings Corp. II.

Raytheon has won a prime contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop a prototype for a Medium Earth Orbit Missile Track Custody system.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says he is encouraged by recent test successes for Lockheed Martin’s Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, despite having previously expressed concern about the program.

After a long period of tame increases, price spikes are returning as a fact of life in aerospace and defense.