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The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has chosen four teams led by a Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) subsidiary and three universities to perform research and development work on a system to retrieve data from cross-lingual and multitopic sources.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential three-year, $267.2M contract modification to produce, test and deliver 20 Standard Missile-3 Block IIA weapons to the Missile Defense Agency.

A new PwC report says the value of global mergers and acquisitions in the aerospace and defense sector was $11.1B in the third quarter of 2019 and the total deal value for year-to-date 2019 was $80.3B, increasing by 2.8x when compared with YTD 2018.

Four companies have won separate contracts from the Missile Defense Agency to come up with payload design prototypes for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor Program. The Department of Defense said Tuesday Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) each received a $20M firm-fixed-price contract, which includes risk-reduction demonstration for signal-chain processing.

Bill Washburn, a more than 30-year information technology executive, has joined software company MarkLogic as federal chief technology officer, G2Xchange ETC reported Monday.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Vista Equity Partners are in discussions over the value of Forcepoint, a joint cybersecurity venture the companies formed in 2015, Inside Defense reported Thursday.

Two presidents have been appointed to lead the Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) businesses that will be consolidated once the Waltham, Mass.-based defense contractor and United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) complete their merger.

Neil Mitchill, vice president and chief financial officer of United Technologies Corp.’s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary, has been appointed to serve as UTC CFO on an acting basis, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has handed over to the U.S. Air Force a high-energy laser counter-drone system designed to trace and neutralize rogue unmanned aircraft.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has won a two-year, $128.5M contract to help the U.S. Air Force maintain and operate mobile sensors at radar facilities. The company will maintain operational readiness of Cobra King and Gray Star radar systems that work to provide situational awareness on a 24-hour basis, the Department of Defense said Monday.