Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a $99.8 million contract to extend access to the Maven Smart System to all military branches, including the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Space Force and Marine Corps. The company said Friday the five-year firm-fixed price contract from the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research ...
Financial services firm Baird, which has deep involvement in the government contracting community through advisements on major mergers and acquisitions deals, has announced the schedule and speaker slate for the 2024 edition of its annual Defense & Government Conference. According to details shared with GovCon Wire, the always-vital gathering ...
The U.S. Navy has awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with a combined ceiling of $1.21 billion to AAR Government Services (NYSE: AIR) and StandardAero for the maintenance and repair of the P-8A Poseidon aircraft. Under each firm-fixed-price, time-and-materials IDIQ, the contractors will perform depot-level engine maintenance, r...
JD Parkes founded Parry Labs in 2016 out of a desire to help the Department of Defense achieve its modernization goals and after serving as an adviser to the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering on airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance efforts. The company has been growing steadily ever since, winning...
The newly combined entity of Eutelsat America Corp. and OneWeb Technologies named senior leaders to its leadership team to help advance growth initiatives as it works to expand its geostationary and low Earth orbit satellite communications systems for government and commercial clients. “With this team, we are well-positioned to deliver innovat...
The State Department has approved Taiwan’s proposed foreign military sale request for aircraft spare parts and related equipment worth $228 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, on behalf of Taiwan’s armed forces, made the request to purch...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has agreed to buy Azure Summit Technology for approximately $1.275 billion in cash as part of efforts to expand its technology offerings for the Department of Defense and other national security agency customers. CACI said Monday it expects the all-cash transaction to conclude in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025...
The State Department has approved the government of Japan’s request to purchase KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft and related equipment for $4.1 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday Boeing (NYSE: BA), RTX (NYSE: RTX), its Pratt & Whitney business and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will serve as the principal contractor...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded 10 vendors spots on a potential five-year, $290 million contract to provide national security agency customers access to unclassified commercial GEOINT-derived computer vision capabilities, data and analytic services. NGA said Friday the Luno A commercial data indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qua...
Wendy Chenault, a two-decade Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) veteran, has joined Aperio Global as vice president of operations. She announced her move to the Reston, Virginia-based data analytics and security company in a LinkedIn post published Friday. Chenault most recently served as director of business operations at Maxar, responsible for buildi...
