Mar. 21 – Mar. 24 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson A White House-mandated cybersecurity organization created to combine knowledge and experience from the public and private sectors added a new leader this week whose background includ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 29, 2015 — Inmarsat has awarded Airbus‘ defense and space business a potential $600 million contract to build the first two communications satellites for Inmarsat’s sixth-generation constellation, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. Inmarsat said Wednesday the Inmarsat-6 satellites have...

Weekly Roundup Nov 16 – Nov 20 2015 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Investors made a sharp turn this week to defense and other government contracting stocks after the Friday Paris attacks in anticipation of increa...

A North America-based subsidiary of Airbus has been awarded a $65.8 million contract to produce 12 additional UH-72A Lakota helicopters for the U.S. Army. Airbus Group Inc. will configure the helicopters as initial entry rotary-wing trainers and begin to deliver the products to the Army in August 2017 under the new contract o...

Dirk Hoke, former CEO of Siemens’ (NYSE: SI) large drives business unit, will join Airbus Group to succeed Bernhard Gerwert as CEO of the airplane maker’s defense and space segment in a transition to take effect April 1, 2016. Airbus Group said Tuesday Hoke will init...

Spain plans to buy four Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles and two ground stations from General Atomics for $27 million as part of a larger five-year, $187 million drone spending program, Agence France-Presse reported Thursday. The report said the budget for the future purchase is included in the Spanish defense ministry’s 2016 budget...

GKN has agreed on the estimated $779.6 million acquisition of Arle Capital‘s Fokker Technologies company as part of GKN’s efforts to establish its business as a global supplier to the aerospace sector. GKN said Tuesday its aerospace business will absorb Fokker as an operating unit following the close of the acquis...

TYSONS CORNER, VA July 27, 2015 — CAE (NYSE: CAE) has achieved Level D qualification for its A350 XWB full-flight simulator situated at the Airbus Training Center in Toulouse, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Company officials said the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration rating, the highest level of qualification for FF...

TYSONS CORNER, VA July 15, 2015 — Airbus, BAE Systems and Finmeccanica consortium MBDA has landed a contract to produce an air defense system for Georgia’s defense ministry, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Civil Georgia online news service quoted local officials as saying Friday the defense system w...

South Korea has ordered four aerial refueling tanker jets from Europe-based aircraft manufacturer Airbus, adding to the company’s portfolio of international customers, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Jeyup Kwaak and Robert Wall write that other buyers of Airbus’ A330 MRTT or multirole tanker transport in...