Textron Defense System Facts

 

The Company

  • Headquartered in Wilmington, Mass.

  • An operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company

  • Key U.S. locations include:

    • Goleta, Calif.

    • Waimea, Hawaii

    • Richardson, Texas

    • Shalimar, Fla.

  • Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ellen Lord

  • Approximate number of employees (2012): 520

Business Areas

  • Advanced Weapons

  • Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Protection Systems

  • Area Attack Systems

Products

  • Sensor Fuzed Weapon, or SFW

  • Clean Area Weapon, or CLAW™

  • Universal Aerial Delivery Dispenser, or U-ADD®

  • Unattended Ground Sensors, or UGS

  • Spider, a man-in-the-loop networked communications, sensors and munitions system

  • Scorpion™, a networked sensor and munition system

  • Tactical Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) Airbag Protection System, or TRAPS

  • ThinZag®, a Textron Defense Systems proprietary laser technology

  • Avcoat, a protective material