The U.S. Navy has fielded the RTX-built StormBreaker precision-guided glide bomb on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, providing the multirole fighter aircraft with strike capability against moving targets. RTX said Monday the F/A-18 is the first approved Navy aircraft to carry the air-to-surface weapon system to engage fixed or moving land and maritime targets in all weather conditions.

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A joint venture between RTX's Raytheon business and Israel-based Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will make a $33 million investment to establish a facility in East Camden, Arkansas, to manufacture the Tamir missile for the Iron Dome weapon system and the U.S. version of the missile, dubbed SkyHunter. The Raytheon-Rafael Area Protection Systems JV will break ground on the manufacturing facility before the end of 2023 and plans to kick off missile production in 2025, RTX said Thursday.

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Aerospace and defense company RTX has appointed Amanda Sorensen as corporate vice president for talent. Sorensen, who transitioned from her most recent role as vice president of human resources at RTX business Raytheon, describes herself on LinkedIn as a "[versatile] and results driven" leader in HR, whose experience includes change management, workforce development and talent management.

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The U.S. Army has completed contractor verification testing of its RTX-made next-generation air and missile defense radar at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to validate the technology's ability to defeat real and simulated threats. During the test, the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor was connected to the Army's Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System and completed 11 mission sets in simulated environments, RTX said Thursday.

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RTX, Draper and Beam Co. have won contracts from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design relay technologies to serve as the foundation of an airborne wireless energy distribution concept. DARPA said Thursday the three companies will develop conceptual designs of the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay and perform benchtop tests under the POWER […] More

RTX‘s research and development organization has secured a $6.6 million contract with the Department of Defense to develop multi-hop mobile ad hoc network technology for military 5G communications. The company said Thursday that BBN will carry out the two-year project as part of the Opportunistic eXtemporarY 5G Encrypted Network program led by DOD’s FutureG and […] More

A General Services Administration report shows that Lockheed Martin, RTX and General Dynamics emerged as the top three vendors that secured the most federal contracting dollars in fiscal year 2022, The Hill reported Friday. Lockheed received $47.7 billion in FY 2022 government contracts, up 13 percent from $42.1 billion in the past fiscal year. Of […] More

RTX will study, design, develop and demonstrate technologies that could be applied to original equipment manufacturer missile and weapons systems as part of a five-year, $35.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense said Thursday the aerospace and defense company was tapped to help the service branch create and integrate new […] More

An RTX business and the U.S. Air Force have fired the latest variant of the defense contractor’s Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile from an F-16 fighter aircraft, completing the final required flight test of the air defense system. The final live-fire test of the AMRAAM AIM-120D-3 variant concludes the developmental and operational testing phase of […] More

RTX has received  a $117.5 million U.S. Army award for the low-rate initial production of advanced targeting sensor systems. Under the contract, RTX will provide 3rd Generation Forward Looking Infrared B-kit sensors for use in multiple Army combat platforms, RTX announced from McKinney, Texas on Wednesday. “This technology supports the U.S. Army’s modernization effort to ensure the […] More

Mynaric will produce and deliver three laser communications terminals for each of the seven missile tracking satellites being developed by RTX, formerly Raytheon Technologies, for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program. The company said Wednesday it will supply 21 Condor Mk3 terminals to RTX in 2024 to equip the latter’s infrared-sensing satellites with […] More

Raytheon Technologies, now known as RTX following a rebranding effort, will move about 4,700 positions and work related to Joint All-Domain Command and Control to Collins Aerospace, effective July 1, as part of a business realignment initiative, C4ISRNET reported Monday. In January, the defense and aerospace contractor announced plans to restructure its four businesses into […] More