Boeing Wins $928 Mln Missile Defense Deal
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Chicago-based Boeing Co. BA.N has  won a $928 million contract to field the ground-based midcourse  defense part of a planned U.S. missile defense shield, the  Pentagon announced on Monday.
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BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman were last night awarded contracts by the United States government to develop technology for protecting commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.
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Boeing Co would be a logical choice to lead the interceptor part of a planned U.S. defense missile shield in eastern Europe, the head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- Lockheed Martin Corp., the world's largest defense contractor, said Tuesday that second quarter earnings rose 34 percent on higher sales across most of its businesses, including fighter jets, missile defense and information technology.
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Boeing Co.  won its second multibillion-dollar order in as many weeks on Tuesday, as German airline Air Berlin  said it would buy 60 of its 737 jets, worth about $4.2 billion at list prices.
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Lockheed Martin Corp.  was awarded a $400 million contract for F-16 aircraft sales to several foreign countries and also won a $248 million contract to support the F-22 weapon system, the Pentagon said on Friday.
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The U.S. Congress on Saturday gave  final approval to a $422 billion bill for defense programs that  backs next year's round of military base closings and kills a  proposed $23.5 billion Air Force deal with Boeing Co. .
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The Department of Homeland Security  on Thursday said Boeing Co.  won a multibillion
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Waltham defense contractor Raytheon Co. yesterday won a nearly $1 billion Navy contract that will take its combat systems for the new DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer from design into production.
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The Pentagon said on Tuesday it awarded more than $2.6 billion worth of contracts to BAE Systems Plc, Force Protection Inc and a Navistar International Corp unit to build another 3,126 mine-resistant vehicles for U.S. soldiers.
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Lockheed Martin Corp., the top US defense contractor, won a US Navy contract worth as much as $3.3 billion to develop and build a group of satellites to provide communications for ground troops.
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Boeing Co  won an order for 16 of  its 787 aircraft and options for eight more from Bahrain-based  Gulf Air in a contract worth as much as $6 billion, Gulf Air  said on Sunday.
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A criminal probe of Boeing Co.'s  dealings with the U.S. Air Force is widening to include a $100  billion Army program it oversees, the Wall Street Journal  reported on Tuesday.
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Robust demand for military equipment  and technology led four U.S. defense companies to post higher  quarterly profit on Wednesday, with jet maker Boeing Co. BA.N  reporting a 78 percent jump in earnings despite a decline in  commercial airplane revenue.
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Boeing Co. received at least $49 million in excessive profits on a $1.2 billion contract to supply explosives-detection systems to hundreds of the nation's airports, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general reported. -The Washington Post
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Raytheon Co. RTN.N was awarded a  contract worth as much as $1.6 billion for full-rate production  of about 2,200 Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles, the company  and the U.S. Department of Defense said on Wednesday.
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Boeing Co.  has been awarded  an 11-year, $2.02 billion contract for 242 wing sets for the  Air Force&#39;s A-10 fleet designed to support ground troops, the  Pentagon said on Friday.