“Meanwhile, RMS is lowering its forecast for sales by $500 million due to lower expected cost volume and slower production ramps at Sikorsky.”

In context

“nd earnings per share. As well as clarifying our attentions on free cash flow and deployment activities. Building off the solid year-to-date growth, we're tightening the sales guidance range to $74.25 billion to $74.75 billion up $250 million at the midpoint and implying 5% organic growth year over year. We now expect segment operating profit to be in the range of $6.675 billion to $6.725 billion maintaining a midpoint margin of 9%. Business area detail can be found on truck 14 and backup appendix two but I'll touch on it briefly now. Three of the four business areas, aero, MSC, and space, are increasing their outlooks for sales by combined $750 million largely based on solid year-to-date performance and improved clarity on cost timing, production ramps, and throughput expectations in Q4. Meanwhile, RMS is lowering its forecast for sales by $500 million due to lower expected cost volume and slower production ramps at Sikorsky. Profit changes are generally in line with sales. Back to the company level, on earnings per share, we are increasing our estimate to a range of $22.15 to $22.35 Incorporating the $50 million of incremental segment mark operating profit as well as lower estimated full-year tax rate. Now estimated to be approximately 16.7%. And as our release stated, the EPS outlook excludes any non-cash impacts from the conversion of pension annuity contracts, that are currently under evaluation and could occur as early as the fourth quarter. Turning to cash, we've shifted to a point estimate our cash flow guidance this quarter. We have line of sight to solid cash generation through the end of the year and we intend to direct any incremental cash generated above the $6.6 billion free cash flow estimate for”