Press Releases

April 7, 2014

AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, and Lycoming Engines, a division of Avco Corporation, announced today that Lycoming's new EL-005 multi-fuel engine has surpassed 10,000 deployed flight hours with the Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS) in service of U.S. Department of Defense customers in Afghanistan.

April 1, 2014

Textron Simulation & Training Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, today launched its new name and brand – TRU Simulation + Training Inc., a new force in the aviation simulation and training market with a full spectrum of innovative offerings and solutions available around the globe.

March 26, 2014

Overwatch Intelligence Solutions, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (USACAPOC) has selected AXIS Pro^® as its software tool of choice for socio-cultural information gathering and analysis.

March 5, 2014

Overwatch Intelligence Solutions, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today the release of its iCommand^™ 1.0 mission command solution.

February 6, 2014

Navratna Defence Public Sector Undertaking Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Textron Systems Corporation, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, as a first step toward providing the Textron Systems MicroObserver^® Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) system to Indian security agencies.