Raytheon bidding for military cargo plane contract
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Defense giant Raytheon Co. , stepping up its makeover from parts supplier to prime contractor, is vying for a contract worth up to $6 billion to provide the Army and Air Force with a product not usually associated with an electronics company: a cargo plane.
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The pledges made by the military and one of its biggest contractors were unusually earnest. The Air Force and Boeing would be open about their relationships, overhaul their ethics reviews and tighten their internal controls. And they promised to give taxpayers the best deals possible.
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TELECOMS group BT will bid this week for a Â£4bn Ministry of Defence contract to stitch together IT systems for Britain&#39;s armed forces.
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Defense contractor Raytheon Co.  on Thursday said quarterly profit rose 16 percent, helped by higher U.S. government spending on its military products and lower tax payments.
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Defense contractor Northrop Grumman  Corp  is teaming up with Oshkosh Truck Corp  in a  bid to supply military vehicles in a contract that could be  worth billions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported on  Tuesday.
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By Timothy R. Gaffney, Dayton Daily News, Ohio  Sep. 14--DAYTON -- Last week's $628 million contract to Computer Sciences  Corp. is just part of the huge database modernization effort at  Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, senior managers said Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES Boeing and defense contractor Northrop Grumman say they&#39;ll bid as a team to compete for NASA&#39;s manned and robotic space exploration program.
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A definite... maybe. Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) Chief Executive Robert Stevens says the firm hasn&#39;t ruled out bidding on a contract to supply air tankers to the Air Force.
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Boeing Co. could sell up to 50 of its new 7E7 planes to Japan Airlines Corp. (JAL) worth as much as &#36;6 billion at list prices under a deal announced on Wednesday.
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Raytheon Co. said yesterday it has lodged a protest with the Government Accountability Office over its loss of a potential $6 billion contract to supply the Army and Air Force with a new cargo plane.
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The U.S. Air Force wants to postpone  until 2009 choosing either Boeing Co.  or a team led by  Northrop Grumman Corp.  to win a contract potentially  valued at $20 billion or more to supply air-to-air refueling  tankers, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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U.S. aircraft maker Boeing Co.  confirmed  an order for 27 Boeing 767-300 Freighters from package delivery  company United Parcel Service Inc. .
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The U.S. Navy will soon announce  whether Lockheed Martin Corp. or Raytheon Co. will build a $6.4  billion communications system to beef up satellite services for  U.S. troops, the White House and State Department, a spokesman  said on Tuesday.
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The Army will rebid the multibillion-dollar contract under which a Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been providing services to troops around the world after years of complaints over how the deal has worked in Iraq.
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The U.S. Air Force said on Monday it   awarded a series of contracts valued at up to $2.3 billion to   civilian airlines to provide emergency airlift services to the   military for the next year.
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THE REGION Defense contractor Raytheon Co. said it received a Pentagon contract worth up to $15 billion to supply a program designed to combat illegal drugs. Under terms of the deal, the company's Raytheon Technical Services Co. division will provide equipment, material, and services to the Counter-Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office at the Department of Defense. Work began Aug. 24 and ...
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By John Nolan Staff Writer  FAIRBORN -- Computer Sciences Corp.'s contract to do a worldwide modernization of the Air Force's computer systems for logistics, acquisition, personnel and supplies management is both a gold mine and a challenge for the region.