Today's aerospace and defense companies want to improve their program planning and execution so they can provide accurate and complete bids that enable them to reduce bid and proposal expenses and control program costs and schedules.

Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon Missiles and Defense, opened Aviation Week’s Program Excellence core sessions for the annual Defense Chain Conference in an interview with Aviation Week’s Carole Rickard Hedden. His introduction provided the foundation for the annual Program Management Roundtable.

Collins Aerospace is to work with Boom Supersonic to develop the inlet, nacelle and exhaust system for the startup’s planned Mach 2.2 airliner, the Overture.

Boeing remains bullish about China’s standing in the global passenger aircraft market, estimating 8,600 aircraft deliveries over the next 20 years, growing at 4.4% annually. 

Raytheon Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Blue Canyon Technologies, a pioneering provider of small satellites and spacecraft systems components, for about $350 million.

New testing shows that a 20-year-old concept can double the radiated power of future airborne early warning radars.

Wichita aerostructures giant Spirit AeroSystems has struck a 45% cash discount with Bombardier for the latter’s Short Brothers capacity in Northern Ireland, as well as Bombardier Aerospace North Africa and most of a Dallas MRO site.

The U.S. Space Force has not closed the door on helping industry fund a “manufacturing on orbit” concept, meaning building parts for satellites while in space, according to the service’s acquisition executive.