BETHESDA, Md., 8 Jan. 2013. Lockheed Martin Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE:LMT), has entered into an agreement to purchase certain assets of the engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) business of Aveos Fleet Performance in Montreal, Canada.

BOULDER, Colo., 7 Jan. 2013. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. officials have instituted an organizational structure change designed to position operating sectors for improved customer efficiency.

WASHINGTON, 31 Dec. 2012. Harris Corp. (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, won the fifth option year of its Network and Space Operations and Maintenance (NSOM) contract to operate, maintain, and logistically support the U.S. Air Force Space Command's 50th Space Wing mission.

CHONGQING, China, 28 Dec. 2012. Pilatus Aircraft Co. Ltd., an aircraft manufacturer in Switzerland, opened its headquarters in China on 18 Dec. 2012.

TEWKSBURY, Mass., 27 Dec. 2012. Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) won a $158.5 million firm-fixed-price contract from Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md., for 48 MH-60R Full Rate Production Airborne Low Frequency Sonar (ALFS) systems, as well as associated program management support.

WILMINGTON, Ohio, 19 Dec. 2012. Officials at Cargo Aircraft Management (CAM), an aircraft leasing subsidiary of Air Transport Services Group Inc., are upgrading the company’s fleet with the addition of three Boeing 757-200 aircraft modified for combined passenger and main-deck cargo, or combi, service.

RUNGIS, France, 18 Dec. 2012. Officials at Embraer Defense and Security in Brazil needed an audio system for the Embraer KC-390 military transport aircraft to ensure broadcast announcements are heard throughout the aircraft’s cockpit and cabin. They found their solution at Cobham. Cobham won a contract to provide the Passenger Address System (PAS) for the KC-390.

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., 17 Dec. 2012. United Technologies Corp. (UTC; NYSE:UTX) plans to sell its Pratt & Whitney Power Systems unit, part of Pratt & Whitney, to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI).

OLATHE, Kan., 17 Dec. 2012. Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN) has expanded its line of worldwide aviation charting products with European (visual flight rules) VFR and instrument flight rules (IFR) charts for the aera 795/796 aviation portable global positioning system (GPS).

CHARLOTTE, N.C., 17 Dec. 2012. UTC Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX), won two aftermarket contracts under the U.S. Navy’s V-22 program.

TUCSON, Ariz., 17 Dec. 2012. Raytheon Company (NYSE:RTN) won a $1.5 million contract under Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements (SeeMe) program, designed to provide useful on-demand imagery to the warfighter in the field from a low-cost satellite constellation.

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., 17 Dec. 2012. BAE Systems will actively recruit from the company’s current maintenance workforce in Whiting Field, Fla.; Pensacola, Fla.; and Corpus Christi, Texas, for its work on U.S. Navy trainer aircraft.

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., 14 Dec. 2012. BAE Systems won a U.S. Navy contract, valued at approximately $400 million over five years, to maintain and service T-34, T-44, and T-6 trainer aircraft.

LAS VEGAS, 14 Dec. 2012. U.S. Air Force officials needed to upgrade the dated Central Inertial and GPS Test Facility Reference System (CRS) for flight and ground testing at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. They found their non-GPS-based positioning solution at Locata Corp. in Las Vegas.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, 13 Dec. 2012. Rockwell Collins won a U.S. Navy contract to upgrade 11 aircraft under the E-6B Block I Modification program.

GAINSVILLE, Va., 13 Dec. 2012. Retro rockets and monopropellant (hydrazine) thrusters from Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, assisted with the launch of the U.S. Air Force Orbital Test Vehicle aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket this week.

GREENWICH, Conn., 10 Dec. 2012. Littlejohn & Co., a private investment firm based in Greenwich, Conn., signed a definitive agreement to sell Synchronous Aerospace Group to Precision Castparts Corp. (NYSE:PCP).

MONROVIA, Calif., 10 Dec. 2012. AeroVironment Inc. (NASDAQ:AVAV), having entered into a strategic relationship with CybAero AB in Sweden, will develop and distribute a Tier II vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in response to customer requests and requirements.

WASHINGTON, 6 Dec. 2012. "Negotiations between The Boeing Company and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), IFPTE Local 2001 are being suspended until after the first of the year,” at the request of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, says Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) Director George H. Cohen.