A Capstone Partners report shows that mergers and acquisitions in defense electronics, space and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance markets reached over 70 transactions in 2020, exceeding the deal volume recorded in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The report attributed the year-over-year increase in deal ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 10, 2021 — General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business updated the mission system of its MQ-9 Reaper in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), ExecutiveBiz reported April 23. GA-ASI said April 22 the remotely piloted aircraft demonstrated its ability to collect intelligence data...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 10, 2021 — Amazon Web Services has designated ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) two competencies for the latter’s work to help government clients manage cloud technology and infrastructure deployments, ExecutiveBiz reported April 23. Srini Iyer, chief technology officer of ManTech and head of the company’s innovat...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 10, 2021 — Dovel Technologies’ Ace Info Solutions subsidiary will provide information technology support services to the Forest Service’s natural resource manager directorate under a five-year, $37 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported April 22. Mike Cosgrave, president and chief operating officer of AceInfo,...
Veritas Capital has closed its purchase of Perspecta and will integrate the latter with its portfolio company Peraton to create a combined entity focused on delivering enterprise information technology and mission capability integration support to federal, state and local government agencies. Stu Shea, chairman, president and CEO at Peraton and a 20...
Capt. Ben Van Buskirk, director of NavalX, will join the “Next Digital Domain- Driving UX, Data and Platform Success” panel at an upcoming Potomac Officers Club event. Van Buskirk assumed his current role on March 19 and lead the organization that aims to scale non-traditional agility approaches across the Department of the Navy workforce. Previ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 7, 2021 — Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) will continue ground technology support for national security space missions after the company received $30 million in follow-on contracts from unnamed customers, ExecutiveBiz reported April 22. “Space is undergoing a renaissance,” said Phil Carrai, pre...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 7, 2021 — Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) rolled out an open spectrum processing architecture intended to help developers build electronic warfare, software-based radio and signals intelligence platforms, ExecutiveBiz reported April 22. The company cited the U.S. Navy’s Jammer Technique Optimization at Point Mugu Naval ...
Anto Tossounian of ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) and Brian Fogg of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business said their companies have partnered to help government agencies deliver digital services as part of efforts to modernize the customer experience. “Through our partnership, we can offer advanced cloud-based managed services for...
Tom Afferton, president of the cyber mission sector at Peraton, will provide a keynote speaker introduction at GovCon Wire’s Defense Cybersecurity Forum on May 12. He will introduce Morgan Adamski, chief of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center, during the virtual event. Afferton joined Peraton, a portfolio compan...
