A joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has been awarded a potential $4.19 billion contract modification to produce different variants of the V-22 tiltrotor aircraft for three U.S. military services and the Japanese government. Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will provide 39 CMV-22B units to the U.S. Navy, …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 29, 2018 — Boeing (NYSE: BA) and the U.S. Army will move forward to the the final assembly phase for the first Block II CH-47F Chinook helicopter the company developed under an engineering and manufacturing development contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the first Block II-configured …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 28, 2018 — Boeing (NYSE: BA), through its venture capital arm, has invested in North Fair Oaks, Calif.-based Matternet, which builds unmanned aerial vehicles for urban logistics use, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Boeing said Tuesday HorizonX Ventures led a Series A funding round that raised $16 million to support …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 25, 2018 — Boeing (NYSE: BA) and the U.S. Air Force anticipate the first rollout of the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker in October, with a total of 18 aircraft, nine sets of refueling pods and two spare engines scheduled for delivery by April 2019, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Bloomberg …

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a potential $179 million contract to provide a H12K system configuration kit for Kuwait air force’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fleet. Boeing will deliver the item needed to develop, modify, integrate, test and support the aircraft’s software under the “undefinitized” contract action, the Defense Department said Friday. The company …

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential five-year, $1.52 billion contract to support life cycle upgrade work on F/A-18 and EA-18G aircraft operated by the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. The company will provide system configuration sets, improvement and demonstration items, laboratory services, engineering and software integration services under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said …

Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Insitu subsidiary has secured a potential multiyear, $117 million contract to provide small unmanned aircraft systems to support intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions onboard the U.S. Coast Guard‘s National Security Cutter fleet. Insitu said Monday it will help the service branch install and deploy ScanEagle sUAS for up to 200 hours in …

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a two-year, $862.2 million contract modification to fund the full rate production of lot 42 Super Hornet multirole aircraft. Boeing will produce 15 units of the F/A-18E variant and and 3 of the F/A-18F variant for the service branch under the modified …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 8, 2018 — Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) venture capital arm has invested in Kittyhawk to support the development of the San Francisco-based startup’s mobile applications and enterprise software offerings, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Boeing said Wednesday HorizonX Ventures joined Bonfire Ventures and Freestyle Capital in a seed funding round …

Boeing (NYSE: BA) will design and engineer a suite of data multiplex systems for the U.S. Navy and three foreign military sales customers under a potential $82.4 million contract The company will provide technical engineering services needed to sustain, qualify and integrate the AN/USQ-82(V) family of systems, as well as provide technical support …