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General Electric (NYSE: GE) has secured a $215M contract modification to supply 48 F414-GE-400 engines and associated devices for the U.S. Navy's F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force has announced plans to award two sole-source contracts to Boeing (NYSE: BA) and General Electric (NYSE: GE) to support the upgrade of its F-15 fighter aircraft fleet.

David Calhoun, formerly chairman of Boeing (NYSE: BA), took over as president and CEO of the aerospace and defense company Monday, Jan. 13. “Working together, we will strengthen our safety culture, improve transparency and rebuild trust with our customers, regulators, suppliers and the flying public,” Calhoun said in a statement published Monday.

General Electric’s (NYSE: GE) aviation subsidiary has received a potential 10-year, $318M contract to provide a range of support services for the U.S. Air Force’s Engine Component Improvement Program.

General Electric's (NYSE: GE) aviation business has secured a $1.33B contract modification for delivery of T700 rotary aircraft engines to U.S. and international defense customers. The company will provide T700s for H-60 Black Hawk, AH-64 Apache and other helicopter programs of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, other government entities and foreign military sales clients, the Department of Defense said Monday.

The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division used its other transaction authority to award multiple contracts to six companies to develop and test digital and radiofrequency microelectronics as part of the initial phase of the State-of-the-art Heterogeneous Integration Prototype project, Naval Sea Systems Command reported Thursday.

David Calhoun, independent lead director at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has been elected to serve as non-executive chairman after the aerospace and defense company’s board decided to separate the chairman and CEO roles in an effort to strengthen the firm’s safety management practices and governance.

General Electric (NYSE: GE) has secured a $219.4M contract modification to deliver 48 engines and related devices for lot 23 of the U.S. Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet jets.

Anne Neuberger, who directs the National Security Agency’s (NSA) new Cybersecurity Directorate, revealed that the NSA will launch a directorate in October to focus on ransomware attacks that could make our upcoming elections vulnerable during Billington CyberSecurity’s 10th Annual Summit last week. Neuberger also discussed NSA’s efforts to protect the nation from …

The U.S. Navy has awarded General Electric’s aviation business a $143.7M contract modification to continue manufacturing engines to power CH-53K heavy-lift cargo helicopters.