RTX
RTX connects the world through the power of flight and protects it with industry-leading defense technologies, combining Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon to design, build, and support aerospace and defense innovations.
- CEO / Founder
- Christopher T. Calio
- Team Size
- 5001-10000
- Stage
- Active
- Latest Round
- Post-IPO
Technology & Products
Key Products
Advanced aviation solutions; Civil missions solutions; Defense innovation technologies; Collins Aerospace systems (including F-35 cooling capacity upgrades); Pratt & Whitney engines; Raytheon defense systems
Technological Advantage
RTX's AM position is built on captive demand plus process research carried out by RTX Technology Research Center (the former United Technologies Research Center / Raytheon Research Center) and applied across Pratt & Whitney, Collins Aerospace and Raytheon. The company claims additive manufacturing shortens development loops and enables part consolidation and weight reduction on propulsion and missile hardware; independently, its innovation scale is verifiable - roughly 1,958 US patents granted in 2025 (Harrity Patent 300) and ~2,140 patents cited in independent portfolio analyses, with WIPO ranking it as the leading patent owner in the air-transportation technology trend, and patent filings recorded under both Raytheon Technologies Corporation and RTX Corporation. The defensibility is mixed: process know-how in metal AM for hot-section and structural components is protected by trade secret and a very large patent estate, and the aerospace qualification barrier is a durable, replicable-only-at-great-cost advantage; however, the underlying AM machine platforms are bought from external OEMs, so the hardware layer itself is not proprietary to RTX. No specific AM patent numbers were independently confirmed in this research pass, so no patent numbers are asserted here.
Patent position
RTX filed 55 patent families in 2022-2024 versus 11 in 2019-2021, a 400% rise, while tracked AM filings in the same patent offices fell 37%. Materials’ share rose from 78% to 88%. AMPulse analysis
- Filing momentum
- 55 families filed 2022–2024, 11 in 2019–2021 (+400%); all tracked AM filings in the same offices -37%
- Focus, 2019–2021 → 2022–2024
- Materials 78% → 88%Applications 56% → 24%
- Filed in
- US 76%EP 24%
- Named competitors, AM patent families
- GE Aerospace 1Lockheed Martin 64Northrop Grumman 74
68 AM patent families in total. Recent years are still being published, so read a filing change against the same-office figure.
Differentiation
Value Proposition
Accelerates the design and manufacture of complex aerospace and defense systems by combining advanced digital tools, scalable design approaches, and manufacturing-ready thinking from the start, enabling ideas to come to life with speed, confidence, and efficiency.
How They Differentiate
Versus GE Aerospace: RTX is a pure consumer of AM capacity (Pratt & Whitney, Collins, Raytheon buy and qualify metal AM parts) rather than a merchant seller of AM machines, so it competes on qualified part cost and program access instead of machine price. Versus Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman: RTX has the broader propulsion franchise (Pratt & Whitney) plus a systems franchise (Collins), which lets it qualify a printed part once and carry it across multiple platforms; it also out-files them on patents, with roughly 1,958 US patents granted in 2025 and ~2,140 in independent portfolio counts versus ~1,459 for Lockheed Martin and ~1,449 for Honeywell (Lumenci), and it holds 15.39% share of the peer revenue pool versus Lockheed Martin's 12.68% (CSIMarket, Q2 2026).
Market & Competition
Target Customers
Aerospace and defense customers, including military and government agencies and commercial aviation operators
Industry Verticals
Aerospace; Defense
Competitors
GE Aerospace; Lockheed Martin; Northrop Grumman
Growth & Milestones
Growth Metrics
Q1 2026 results beat consensus on both revenue and earnings (market coverage, April 2026); segment revenue split shows Collins Aerospace at $26.25B, equal to 38.09% of company revenue (segment breakdown data); Q2 2026 peer revenue pool share of 15.39% (CSIMarket)
Major Milestones
1922: Raytheon founded; 2020: Raytheon Company and United Technologies Corporation merge to form Raytheon Technologies Corporation; 2023: rebranded as RTX Corporation with headquarters in Arlington, VA; 2023: sold the Cybersecurity, Intelligence and Services business for approximately $1.3B; 2026-01-27: reported FY2025 results and announced FY2026 outlook; Q1 2026: reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results on both revenue and earnings
Notable Customers
U.S. Department of Defense (U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army); F-35 Joint Program Office (Pratt & Whitney F135 engine); Airbus (Pratt & Whitney GTF engines on the A320neo family); Boeing (Collins Aerospace systems supply)
AM patents
AM-relevant patents linked to this company.
- Patents
- 68
- Granted
- 23
- Families
- 68
Leading domains: process (63), material (54), equipment (29)
Filings by year: 2025: 1 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 6
- Porous space fillers for ceramic matrix composites11820715 · US
- APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS FOR REPAIRING MACHINE PARTS USING A HYBRID PRE-HEATING SYSTEM04721912 · EP
- Metal additive manufacturing method and article11980969 · US
- APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS FOR FRICTION STIR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING REPAIR OF MATERIALS20260084232 · US
- Predictive defect model for highly productive laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing12623288 · US