L3Harris Technologies

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

L3 Harris has signed a contract for up to 20 launches aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket.

Aerojet contributed $581 million in revenue (a 7% sequential increase) for L3Harris in the second quarter.

The mission, designated Artemis IV, is to be the first aboard the more powerful SLS Block 1 rocket.

AFSOC and L3Harris announced the deliveries in social media posts.

Lockheed Martin F-35s will become more expensive over the next four years, with flyaway prices rising 16-18% depending on the variant.

RTX is no longer building satellites in the first phase of the U.S. Space Force’s missile-tracking satellite constellation.

After being shut out of a patrol fleet acquisition, Ottawa’s aerospace industry is gearing up to compete for a new airborne early warning contract.

But financial analysts believe the Canadian simulation and training giant remains on track for overall growth due to its predominant civil aviation business.

U.S. Special Operations Command is working to identify new requirements for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as it prioritizes the OA-1K aircraft.

The service modules for NASA’s first six Artemis Moon-mission Orion crew capsules are relying on propulsion from refurbished Orbital Maneuvering Systems.

The Pentagon’s push to adopt more commercial communications systems is raising concerns with the DOD's largest provider of resilient communications,

Small, high-altitude balloons, business jets and loitering UAVs all feed into new targeting plans.

L3Harris (LHX) posted better-than-expected results in the first quarter.

The U.S. Army has awarded Leidos a major sustainment contract for its future high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) fleet.

The U.S. MRO will become the sole distributor for several L3Harris products in three global regions.

South Korea has pushed the timeline of its latest AEW competition to the right after only one bidder submitted documents that met DAPA's requirements.

Guy Norris talks with CEO Tom Vice about the spinoff-turned-prime’s growth plans as its space defense business surges and its spaceplane prepares for flight.

Flight tests of the Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engine for the ultra-long-range Dassault Falcon 10X business jet have begun following delivery of the company’s Boeing 747-200 flying testbed fitted with the test engine to its Tucson facility in Arizona.

The team of MAG Aerospace and L3Harris say their first prototype under a new U.S. Army effort for high-altitude ISR has taken its first flight.

The agency’s disruptive approach to space acquisition has produced many contracts in a tight timeline, though its biggest tests are yet to come.

The command now plans to buy 62 of the militarized cropdusters by the end of fiscal 2027 instead of all 75 aircraft due to funding constraints.

The announcements came during a visit by Defense Minister Bill Blair to CFB Trenton, the main operating base for the CE-145C Vigilance and a hub for CC-330s.

L3Harris Technologies has picked Maxar Space Systems to design and build 18 spacecraft for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Tracking Layer program.

L3Harris’s missile-tracking infrared satellite payload has passed its preliminary design review (PDR).