Airbus‘ defense and space business has received an estimated $127 million contract to provide commercial satellite communication services to the German armed forces through 2023. The German armed forces will use C- and Ku-band transponders for voice and data applications in Germany, between main overseas bases and for Navy vessels, Airbus said...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 25, 2016 ” Airbus will deploy its Vesta 9-1-1 call handling platform across Fairfax County in Virginia to support the region’s Next Generation 9-1-1 program with General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Vesta 9-1-1 will be part of the county’s future emergency commun...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 12, 2016 ” Siemens has partnered with Airbus on the development of a hybrid electric propulsion system for passenger aircraft that could drive efforts to reduce noise and fuel consumption, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Airbus said Thursday a joint team of 200 employees will work on the project in pre...
New York City-based private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (NYSE: KKR) has agreed to acquire the defense electronics business of global aerospace and defense contractor Airbus Group for approximately $1.24 billion. Airbus said Friday the transaction is scheduled to close in the first quarter of 2017 and t...
Nicolas Chamussy, chief of staff to Airbus Group CEO Tom Enders, will take over the role as executive vice president of the global defense contractor’s space systems unit on July 1. Airbus said Friday Chamussy will succeed Francois Auque, who will leave the company after 16 years and will remain as an adviser through July 1. He...
Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ growth equity arm led the round, with AMD Ventures, Ericsson, LG Technology Ventures and Maximus participating The raise brings the AI infrastructure software firm’s total capital to $260 million Its PaletteAI platform gives teams a single operating model for GPU clusters, AI factories and distributed inferenc...
Alexander will focus on scaling operations and pushing the hydrogen drone maker into international markets Her two-decade GovCon career includes senior growth roles at ASRC Federal, L-3’s National Security Solutions and Serco The hire comes amid rapid expansion at Heven, whose workforce has more than doubled since the end of 2025 Heven AeroTec...
NASA has added eight companies to its CSDA contract and will buy more data products from six existing vendors The awards came under the program’s second on-ramp round, bringing in firms like Hydrosat, Muon Space and Orbital Sidekick The commercial data is meant to supplement NASA’s Earth-observing satellites with sharper, more frequent i...
SAIC has appointed Paul Eremenko, an artificial intelligence expert, and Michael Rogers, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and a three-time Wash100 awardee, to its board of directors. The company said Thursday Eremenko and Rogers will serve on the board’s audit committee and technology committee. Their appointments increase the board’s size fr...
Motorola Solutions has acquired Exacom, a provider of cloud-native recording and logging technology used to capture 911 calls and radio communications, to strengthen its command center software and digital evidence management capabilities for public safety agencies. What Capabilities Does Exacom Provide? Motorola said Thursday Exacom’s offerin...
