BAE Systems' land and armaments business has secured a three-year, $400.9M contract modification to manufacture 160 Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles for the U.S. Army.

BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary has agreed to acquire two businesses that are being divested in order for United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) to secure the required antitrust approval for their pending merger.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 6, 2020 — BAE Systems will continue to provide military intelligence delivery services to the Defense Intelligence Agency via the company's prime position on the potential $17B Solutions for Intelligence Analysis 3 contract vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 18.

BAE Systems' ship repair business in Norfolk, Va., has been awarded a potential $175.1M contract to help the U.S. Navy modernize a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser. The firm-fixed-price contract covers the provision of workers and facilities needed to address USS Vicksburg modernization requirements for fiscal year 2020, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

BAE Systems’ ordnance systems business has secured a two-year, $180.1M contract modification to continue helping the U.S. Army operate and maintain a Radford, Va., factory for rocket and missile propellants.

Tom Arseneault, president and chief operating officer of BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary and a former Wash100 Award recipient, has been appointed to take a new dual role as president and CEO beginning on April 1. He will succeed Jerry DeMuro, who assumed the chief executive position in 2014 and a 2019 Wash100 winner.

BAE Systems has secured a four-year, $249.1M contract modification to deliver self-propelled howitzer artillery systems, carrier unit, tracked vehicles, ammunition and related support services to the U.S. Army.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BAE Systems a contract to develop two cybersecurity tools designed to protect electronic files as part of DARPA's Safe Documents program.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen BAE Systems to create a semi-autonomous technology that would help military personnel to plan missions. BAE will develop the Multi-domain Adaptive Request Service software to facilitate automatic battlespace data collection across air, sea, land and space domains, the company said Tuesday.

BAE Systems has won a potential $104.8M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide technical and engineering support for various systems installed at shore facilities and aboard surface combatants of the U.S. Navy.