Thomas DeFrank, formerly chief financial officer and vice president of finance at L3 Technologies, has joined Ensco as CFO. He succeeds Mike Bogdanovic, who will serve as director of Ensco's retirement plan and special projects on a part-time basis, the company said Monday.

Thomas Casale, former president of L3 Technologies' radome manufacturing business, has joined Cobham as vice president and general manager of communications, navigation and identification and interconnect solutions unit. He will lead the business area that operates within Cobham's advanced electronic solutions sector and brings 30 years of radiofrequency and microwave industry experience to his new role, the company said Monday.

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a contract to develop a prototype of wideband airborne high-frequency radio technology for the U.S. Air Force. USAF selected the L3Harris Falcon offering for an industry competition that seeks a replacement for the service branch's AN/ARC-190 radio, the company said Wednesday.

Jesus “Jay” Malave, a more than 20-year United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTC) veteran, has joined L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) as senior vice president and chief financial officer.

Following Jacobs Engineering Group’s (JEC) official acquisition of KeyW on June 12th, United Technologies Corp. (UTX) has replaced KeyW as a member of the GovConIndex. You can find the daily performance of the GovCon industry, the latest financial news and expert analysis on the GovConIndex right here. UTX joins the …

L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has secured a potential six-year, $73.7M contract to update, repair and overhaul submarine photonics masts used on U.S. Navy submarines. The service branch will obligate $2.1M in fiscal 2019 other procurement funds at the time of award, the Department of Defense said Monday.

Harris (NYSE: HRS) and L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) set June 29, Saturday, as the closing date for their all-stock merger deal after they secured the regulatory clearances needed to complete the transaction.

The Department of Justice has given L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) and Harris (NYSE: HRS) an antitrust approval to advance their merger through an all-stock transaction, Reuters reported Friday.

A McAleese & Associates report says the merged company of L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) and Harris (NYSE: HRS) would invest 4 percent of $18B combined revenue in independent research-and-development efforts.

L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) CEO Christopher Kubasik said the company’s planned merger with Harris (NYSE: HRS) still needs approval from the Department of Justice, the European Union and Turkey, Inside Defense reported Thursday.