Jane Edwards

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is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic covering mergers and acquisitions, contract awards, contracting opportunities and executive moves in the government contracting space for GovCon Wire.

Raytheon-UTC Deal Comes as DoD Eyes New Priorities; Pierre Chao Offers Insight on M&A TrendM&A Activity

Raytheon-UTC Deal Comes as DoD Eyes New Priorities; Pierre Chao Offers Insight on M&A Trend

The planned merger between Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) comes as the aerospace-and-defense sector anticipates slower growth in the Department…
Navy’s IT Contract Spending Projected to Reach $12B in 2020News

Navy’s IT Contract Spending Projected to Reach $12B in 2020

Analysts said contractors competing for the U.S. Navy’s information technology programs face major opportunities as the service’s IT budget is…
LinQuest Wins $562M Air Force Systems Engineering Support ContractContract Awards

LinQuest Wins $562M Air Force Systems Engineering Support Contract

Los Angeles-based space systems technology provider LinQuest has won a potential seven-year, $562.3M contract from the U.S. Air Force for…
Jacobs Concludes Tender Offer for KeyW AcquisitionM&A Activity

Jacobs Concludes Tender Offer for KeyW Acquisition

Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has concluded a tender offer to acquire all the outstanding shares of common stock of KeyW…
Sumo Logic Gets FedRAMP Ready Designation for Machine Data Analytics PlatformNews

Sumo Logic Gets FedRAMP Ready Designation for Machine Data Analytics Platform

Sumo Logic has obtained the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Ready status for its cloud-based machine data analytics platform.
Thomas Kennedy on Features of Raytheon-UTC Merger DealM&A Activity

Thomas Kennedy on Features of Raytheon-UTC Merger Deal

Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), told Defense News in an interview published Tuesday about the features…
AeroVironment Buys Pulse Aerospace in UAS Portfolio Expansion Push; Wahid Nawabi QuotedM&A Activity

AeroVironment Buys Pulse Aerospace in UAS Portfolio Expansion Push; Wahid Nawabi Quoted

AeroVironment has purchased Lawrence, Kan.-based Pulse Aerospace for $25.7M in cash to expand its line of small unmanned aircraft systems.
DLH Buys Public Health Research Org Social & Scientific Systems; Zachary Parker QuotedM&A Activity

DLH Buys Public Health Research Org Social & Scientific Systems; Zachary Parker Quoted

Health care services contractor DLH Holdings (Nasdaq: DLHC) has purchased Silver Spring, Md.-based public health research organization Social & Scientific…
Lockheed, DoD Reach ‘Handshake’ Deal for Lot 12 F-35s; Ellen Lord, Greg Ulmer QuotedContract Awards

Lockheed, DoD Reach ‘Handshake’ Deal for Lot 12 F-35s; Ellen Lord, Greg Ulmer Quoted

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and the Department of Defense have reached a “handshake agreement” for the company to build 157 low rate…
VMware’s Bill Rowan: Government-Industry Collaboration Key to IT ModernizationNews

VMware’s Bill Rowan: Government-Industry Collaboration Key to IT Modernization

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware (NYSE: VMW), has said the development of an application designed to…