Dan Fermon, interim chief operating officer at Firefly Aerospace since May, has been appointed to the COO position on a full-time basis. He will continue to oversee a range of business operations at the Texas-based space transportation company including the production of the Alpha rocket for future launch missions and the establishment of the Propul...
Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Airbus and Leonardo will advance to the next phase of an estimated $1.15 billion acquisition program to replace the U.K. air force’s Puma HC.2 medium support helicopter platform, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. A British defense ministry spokesperson said the agency intends to ask all four c...
QinetiQ was established in the United Kingdom in 2001 when the Ministry of Defence split its Defence Evaluation and Research Agency into two organizations. The smaller of the two organizations stayed in the public sector and evolved into Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, while the larger of the two was privatized and became QinetiQ. Now,...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will deliver the CH-47F Chinook aircraft to the German armed forces for its heavy-lift helicopter program, with the potential Foreign Military Sales deal reportedly reaching $4.29 billion in estimated value. The defense company said Wednesday it was selected to provide Germany with the NATO-interoperable Chinook aircraft to meet it...
John Roth, an aerospace industry veteran, has joined AAR Corp. as vice president of business development for the company’s government services business, according to his LinkedIn post. He most recently served as director of strategy and business development for the Future Programs at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and previously held a similar r...
The National Reconnaissance Office has awarded contracts to Airbus’ U.S. arm, Capella Space, ICEYE, Umbra and PredaSAR to develop commercial radar systems. NRO said Thursday it issued a broad agency announcement framework for strategic commercial enhancements in October 2021 with commercial radar as the first focus area. The agency’s Strategic C...
Spirit AeroSystems (NYSE: SPR) has reorganized its operations into three business divisions – defense and space, commercial and aftermarket – and announced leadership appointments as part of efforts to diversify and focus on key growth markets. Duane Hawkins will continue to oversee the defense and space division as president and has been na...
Searchlight Capital Partners, a private investment firm, has agreed to buy Technical Airborne Components from TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) for an undisclosed sum. Belgium-based TAC designs and produces rods and struts for helicopters, commercial planes, military aircraft and space programs and operates with about 170 employees, the companies said in ...
The Space Development Agency upheld its decision to award contracts to L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and SpaceX to build missile tracking satellites for the proposed National Defense Space Architecture following the reevaluation of bids for the contracts, C4ISRNET reported Thursday....
The Space Development Agency has asked companies that competed for contracts to build missile-tracking satellites for the proposed national defense space architecture to resubmit bids for reevaluation, SpaceNews reported Tuesday....
