Raytheon Technologies CEO Greg Hayes said the company’s defense work will represent about 67 percent of sales in 2020, Inside Defense reported Monday.

A Raytheon Technologies business has received a $27M contract to provide technical support for the U.S. Army’s enterprise software system that manages logistics operations for the service branch’s ammunition resources.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Raytheon Technologies and Northrop Grumman have commenced the fourth experiment with groups of autonomous vehicles designed to support future small infantry operations in an urban environment.

Raytheon Technologies has built and delivered another high-energy laser weapon system to the U.S. Air Force for use in the branch's upcoming experiments and training activities overseas. The company said Monday HELWS has completed a directed energy weapon evaluation process and been approved for initial operational employment.

Wallis Laughrey, vice president of space and command and control systems at Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business, has said the company is working on radar technologies for future space architectures built on hybrid sensors.

Raytheon Technologies executives have said the company is applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to the company's technology offerings in a push to help military customers process intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data faster. “We’re looking at how machine learning can augment our existing sensor product lines and the question is: "How can we utilize machine learning technology to help military commanders make decisions?" said Shane Zabel, AI technology area director for Raytheon's intelligence and space business.

A Raytheon Technologies business unit has received a $495K contract to help the U.S. Air Force assess the feasibility of using blockchain across battle management, aviation and situational awareness operations, Coindesk reported Thursday.

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business has partnered with the U.S. Air Force to create a software development framework for multidomain workflow management activities.

Raytheon Technologies has announced that the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB), built by Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S), flew on an EA-18G Growler, marking the first flight test on the aircraft, the company announced Monday. 

Raytheon Technologies has awarded a Teledyne Technologies division a potential three-year, $29M contract to build and maintain cooling equipment units for ground radar systems designed to help military customers detect ballistic missile threats.

The U.S. Navy has demonstrated a Raytheon Technologies-built jamming system aboard an EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft for the first time at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland.

Raytheon Technologies has unveiled a data-centric software based on zero-trust architecture that works to ensure configuration security and protect applications and data at various operating system layers.

Raytheon Technologies has announced its second quarter 2020 results on Tuesday, reporting sales of $14.1 billion, adjusted sales of $14.3 billion, GAAP EPS from continuing operations at a loss of $2.56 and adjusted EPS of $0.40. 

Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business plans to demonstrate an artificial intelligence-based mission data processing technology to the U.S. Army later this month in pursuit of the service branch's new tactical ground station development program. “The goal of TITAN is to link Army commanders at all echelons to timely intelligence data, speeding up the data-to-decision timeline," said David Appel, vice president of defense and civil solutions at RI&S.

Red Hat has again honored Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business with a business transformation of the year award. Both parties worked on DevSecOps offerings last year in a joint effort to help customers incorporate security measures  early in the software development process, Raytheon Technologies said Thursday.