The State Department has approved Tunisia's request to buy four Textron-built (NYSE: TXT) light attack aircraft, related equipment and support services under a potential $325.8M foreign military sales agreement.

The U.S. Army has informed the National Advanced Mobility Consortium that it will award other transaction agreements to QinetiQ North America and Textron (NYSE: TXT) to build two variants of a robotic combat vehicle.  The military service said Thursday it expects to finalize the OTAs in mid-February to procure four light RCV units from QinetiQ NA and four medium RCVs from Textron.

Bell, a subsidiary of Textron (NYSE: TXT), has secured a potential five-year, $815M contract to repair, update or replace 35 items for AH-1Z Viper and UH-1Y Venom helicopters. The company will also manage inventories, establish metrics for supply response time and provide warehousing under the performance-based logistics contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

The U.S. Air Force plans to buy up to six light-attack aircraft from Textron (NYSE: TXT) and a Sierra Nevada Corp.-Embraer team for use in training and experimental activities as part of the National Defense Strategy.

Martin UAV and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) AAI Corp. subsidiary will compete for orders to provide non-developmental tactical unmanned aerial systems to the U.S. Army under a potential three-year, $99.5M contract. Eleven bids were submitted to Army Contracting Command for the firm-fixed-price contract, which runs through March 27, 2022, the Department …

Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has received a four-year, $439.5M contract modification to build 25 lot 16 AH-1Z twin-engine attack helicopters for the U.S. Navy. Bell Helicopter will also provide 25 stores control units as part of the modification, which exercises an option under a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive contract, the Department …

Textron (NYSE: TXT) closed its acquisition of Waterboro, Maine-based robotic ground vehicle maker Howe & Howe Technologies on Dec. 17, Defense News reported Thursday. Textron announced its intent to buy Howe & Howe in October 2018 in a push to expand its autonomous technology offerings across land, air and maritime domains. Lisa Atherton, president and …

Textron (NYSE: TXT) will obtain additional materials needed to build landing craft air cushion vehicles under a five-year, $314.3M contract modification from the U.S. Navy. The company will use the funds to acquire long lead time components for LCAC class crafts 109 through 123 and to continue pre-fabrication work on crafts 109 …

Textron (NYSE: TXT) is acquiring Waterboro, Maine-based robotic ground vehicle manufacturer Howe & Howe Technologies for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand autonomous technology offerings across land, sea and air domains. The industrial conglomerate said Thursday Howe & Howe’s vehicles and applications will complement its portfolio of unmanned platforms, control systems …

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary a pair of delivery orders worth up to $96.7M to provide right and left hand aircraft assembly parts for the proprotor gearboxes of the U.S. Navy’s V-22 Osprey fleet. Each order is valued at $48.4M and work will take place in Texas through April …