Raytheon is relocating headquarters to the Washington, DC, area

Raytheon Technologies said it would move its global headquarters to the Washington, DC, area later this year Other Large Aerospace and Defense Contractors Seeking greater closeness from the Pentagon, regulators and lawmakers.

The world’s second-largest defense company by sales said it was moving a small number of employees from its current headquarters in Waltham, Mass., to an existing facility in the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington in northern Virginia in the third quarter of this year. Planning to expand.