L3Harris says it signed multi-year Tomahawk production deal with Navy
The company says the agreement with the Naval Air Warfare Center will expand Tomahawk missile output, though it is not the missile's primary maker
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L3Harris Technologies says it has signed a multi-year agreement with the Naval Air Warfare Center to increase production of Tomahawk cruise missiles. The company has not released the value of the deal or a timeline for the added output.
The Tomahawk program has largely been the domain of RTX's Raytheon unit. The Department of Defense said in August that the Navy awarded Raytheon a $22.9 billion contract to ramp up Tomahawk production, according to Manufacturing Dive. In January, the Department of War approved a $380,809,286 modification to a separate Raytheon Tomahawk modernization contract, bringing its total value to $476,519,069, with work running through April 2029, Army Recognition reported.
L3Harris has been expanding elsewhere in missile manufacturing. Breaking Defense reported that as of late July, the company had reached separate, not yet finalized agreements with the Pentagon to scale up production of solid rocket motors for PAC-3 and THAAD interceptor systems over seven years, a different line of business from Tomahawk.
The new agreement fits a pattern already under way: Trump administration policy has been pushing an expansion of missile production capacity, Tomahawks included, and L3Harris has been part of that build-out. The deal adds capacity rather than changing the trajectory investors have already priced in for the company.