Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been awarded a $1.55B contract modification to produce an additional 18 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance planes for the U.S. Navy as well as New Zealand and South Korea.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced Monday a temporary suspension of production operations at its Puget Sound area facilities because of the state of emergency in Washington state and the company's continuous assessment of the accelerating spread of the coronavirus in the region to ensure the health of employees, families and the local community.

The U.S. Army has awarded contracts to Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary and a team of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky business to proceed with the competitive demonstration and risk reduction effort for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program, Defense News reported Monday.

Wendy Livingston, vice president of corporate human resources at Boeing (NYSE: BA), will succeed Heidi Capozzi as senior VP of HR on an acting basis when the latter steps down in early April.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential $191.9M contract from the U.S. Army to provide post-production services for the British military's AH-64E Apache helicopters and Longbow crew training systems.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured an $800M contract modification with the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead materials and services needed to build an 11th batch of P-8A multimission maritime planes. The award is intended to address advanced procurement requirements to manufacture eight P-8A aircraft for the service branch as well as four planes for New Zealand and another six for South Korea, the Department of Defense said Friday.

The Space Force has awarded a $240M contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and a $191M contract to Boeing (NYSE: BA) to develop payloads to help the service branch secure military satellite communications. The two companies will help the new service branch develop Protected Tactical Satcom payloads for a family-of-systems architecture designed to provide anti-jam, beyond line-of-sight communications to tactical warfighters, the U.S. Air Force said Tuesday.

Israel has asked to buy $2.4B in Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) aerial refueling aircraft, Raytheon-made (NYSE: RTN) navigation systems and other associated equipment from the U.S. government under a potential $2.4B foreign military sales deal approved by the State Department.

A joint project office of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron's (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has received a $165.3M contract modification to manufacture and deliver two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotors to the U.S. Marine Corps.

Susan Doniz, former group chief information officer at Qantas Group, has been named CIO of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and senior vice president for information technology and data analytics. She will officially join the Chicago-based planemaker in May.