S3 International has rebranded as S3 AeroDefense to emphasize the company's target market for aircraft spares and repair services.

Honeywell International has secured a five-year, $72.9M contract to repair six weapon assemblies of V-22 tiltrotor aircraft used by the U.S. Navy. Naval Supply Systems Command issued the award that provides for work in Torrance and San Diego, California; and Tucson and Tempe, Arizona, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

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 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.

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

Dave Reichert, a former congressman who represented Washington's eighth district and a 33-year law enforcement veteran, has been appointed a vice president at Gordon Thomas Honeywell Governmental Affairs.

Honeywel International has won a potential $10.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop an acceleration measurement device. The Defense Department said Tuesday Honeywell support research and development of a low noise, high sensitivity vibrating beam accelerometer under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. Work  will occur in Glendale, Arizona, …

Honeywell International has been awarded a $64.9 million contract modification to repair, replace and provide program support for auxiliary power units of the U.S. Navy’s  F/A-18 A/G, P-3 and C-2 auxiliary power units. The company will also support F/A-18 main fuel controls and electronic control technology and P-3 engine driven compressor, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a potential $12 million contract to Honeywell International and a $15 million contract to United Technologies Corp.‘s Pratt & Whitney subsidiary to research, develop and engineer secondary power systems for multiple types of aircraft. Both contractors will support efforts of the Air Force and U.S. Navy to optimize the safety, …

Honeywell International will deliver aircraft wheel and brake spare parts to the U.S. Air Force under a five-year, $47.1 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The Defense Department said Friday services will be conducted in Indiana with a completion date of Dec. 21, 2021. The contract will be financed …

Honeywell will provide ballistic composite materials to ArmorSource, Short Bark Industries and KDH Defense Systems‘ for efforts by the latter three companies to build military protection products. KDH Defense will use Honeywell’s Gold Shield and Spectra Shield products to create soft armor vest systems for the U.S. Army‘s next-generation Soldier Protection System, Honeywell said …

Honeywell International has received a potential three-year, $18.3 million delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply brakes for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft. DLA’s aviation unit will fund the delivery order with the service branch's fiscal 2016 working capital funds, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Honeywell will perform work …

Honeywell International has received a five-year, $41,432,253 award from the Defense Logistics Agency to produce radar altimeters for the U.S. Army's avionics equipment. Federal civilian agencies will also use the APN-209 radar altimeters under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Honeywell will perform work in Arizona through July …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Honeywell and SRI International to develop electronics that can easily break down once their useful life is over, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes Honeywell won a $2.5 million contract and SRI won a $4.7 million contract under the …