A Textron-built ship-to-shore connector is slated to undergo U.S. Navy acceptance trials after the completion of the platform's developmental and production stages, USNI reported Monday.

Textron is one of three companies the U.S. Army selected to develop prototypes of rifles under the service branch’s Next Generation Squad Weapons program and wants to be prepared to go into mass production should it win the NGSW contract, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday.

Textron's aviation business and General Dynamics' Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. subsidiary have received separate contracts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to manufacture airplanes for use in environmental data-gathering missions.

Textron Aviation Defense expects an upcoming U.S. Air Force certification that may support the global sales of the firm's AT-6 Wolverine light-attack, single-engine aircraft, FlightGlobal reported Saturday.

Scott Donnelly, CEO of Textron, said the company is halfway done with builder's trials of the Ship-to-Shore Connector platform it developed for the U.S. Navy and expects to receive a contract by the end of the year to commence production of the air cushion vehicle, USNI News reported Thursday. Textron won the SSC design and construction project in 2012. Both parties are in discussions about moving the program from the development phase to the manufacturing stage.

Textron Systems has received a 10-year, $51.3M contract modification to provide multiprobe antenna systems for the U.S. Air Force’s Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Textron Systems prepares to deliver Aerosonde HQ, a new unmanned aircraft system, for the initial phase of the U.S. Army’s Future Tactical UAS program, which involves assessment by the Army’s Brigade Combat Team, Rotor and Wing International reported Friday.

Textron has finished test flights of a newly configured multimission unmanned aircraft system slated to join the U.S. Army fleet sometime in 2020, Aviation International News reported Monday. Shadow's Block III tests occurred at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico over a five-week period. The configuration includes a new engine, an updated video payload from L3 Technologies' Wescam business and advanced communications technology.

Textron's Airborne Tactical Advantage subsidiary has received a one-year, $55.6M contract modification to provide Type III high subsonic and Type IV supersonic aircraft to fleet customers of the U.S. Navy.

The U.S. Air Force plans to award a sole-source contract to the Sierra Nevada Corp.-Embraer team for the production of light attack aircraft global missions, Defense News reported Thursday.

Textron has begun testing a new configuration of the RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aerial system developed by its AAI Corp. subsidiary for the U.S. Army, Rotor and Wing International reported Friday.

Textron CEO Scott Donnelly said foreign military sales may help its Bell Helicopter subsidiary maintain military revenues over the next decade as it is scheduled to complete its V-22 tiltrotor program with Boeing in 2024, AINonline reported Monday.