Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has purchased Ballard Unmanned Systems for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of unmanned aerial systems and urban air mobility platforms.

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has purchased Rocky Research in a deal of an undisclosed sum that adds thermal, energy and power management platforms to the Charlotte, North Carolina-based industrial conglomerate's aerospace segment.

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has created a business unit focused on unmanned aerial systems in a move to expand the company’s urban air mobility technology portfolio.

The Department of Defense has awarded contracts worth $133M combined to 3M (NYSE: MMM), O&M Halyward and Honeywell (NYSE: HON) to increase local production of N95 masks by over 39M in the next three months as part of the Defense Production Act Title 3 COVID-19 project.

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has secured a four-year, $99.1M contract to help the U.S. Air Force update the service branch's Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System.

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has received a potential 15-year, $3.5B contract to produce and sustain embedded navigation systems for the U.S. Air Force and foreign military sales clients.

Mike Madsen, former vice president of integrated supply chain operations at Honeywell's (NYSE: HON) aerospace business, has been promoted to president and CEO of the unit. He succeeds Tim Mahoney, a 2016 Wash100 Award recipient.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 3, 2019 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a 10-year, $77M subcontract from prime contractor Honeywell to provide logistics services to the U.S. Air Force in support of several aircraft types, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 21.

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has received a potential $110.9M contract modification to provide hardware required to overhaul engines that power the U.S. Army's Abrams tanks. Services under the contract are intended to address Advanced Gas Turbine 1500 production requirements at Anniston Army Depot and support field repair efforts under the Total Integrated Engine Revitalization program, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

Cullen Glass, an 18-year veteran of Honeywell (NYSE: HON), has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as corporate director of enterprise transformation.