Honeywell has established a center of excellence in Phoenix to maintain engines that power CH-47 Chinook helicopters flown by the U.S. Army and international defense customers. The T55 Repair and Overhaul CoE is close to Honeywell's aerospace business headquarters and co-located with its engine production and engineering operations, the company said Thursday.

Honeywell has started testing and collecting data on its sensor technology designed to support its urban air mobility platforms ahead of demonstration activities over the next year.

Honeywell and the U.S. Army have agreed to test-fly a Chinook helicopter with a new variant of the company's T55 engine to demonstrate the motor's power output and fuel consumption. The 6,000-horespower machine is designed to generate 25 percent more power and consume 10 percent less fuel than the current model.

Honeywell has started manufacturing N95 masks in a facility in Smithfield, R.I., to help the Department of Health and Human Services support safety, health and emergency response personnel amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honeywell plans to expand its manufacturing activities in Phoenix to help the government address the COVID-19 pandemic.

Honeywell International has secured a two-year, $72.8M contract to address logistics requirements of the U.S. Navy’s aircraft repair activities.

Retired U.S. Army general Raymond Odierno has been appointed to Honeywell’s board of directors to share his expertise from his almost four-decade military career.

Honeywell has secured a contract to help Lockheed Martin produce a fleet of Orion spacecraft for NASA’s space exploration missions.

Honeywell has collaborated with iTRACE and SecureMarking to optimize security capacities for aerospace components through blockchain and two-factor authentication technologies.

Honeywell has received a $46.9M firm-fixed-price contract to repair and overhaul a turboshaft engine system used by the U.S. Army.

Honeywell’s aerospace business has awarded KBR a 10-year, $77M subcontract to carry out logistics services at Hill Air Force Base Depot in Utah.

Honeywell has unveiled a series of video cameras designed to augment building security via the use of channel encryption and analytics capabilities.

The International Society of Automation has inducted Honeywell to a cybersecurity consortium composed of government agencies and technology providers.

Honeywell will provide a satellite communications system for U.S. military transport aircraft as part of the Department of Defense-managed Fixed Installation Satellite Antenna program. Honeywell said Monday its Ku-band JetWave system is designed to work with Inmarsat's Global Xpress satellite network to provide global connectivity for the U.S. Air Force's C-17 Globemaster III planes.

Honeywell will provide hardware services to the U.S. Army's Total InteGrated Engine Revitalization program under a two-year, $70.4M contract modification.