Denver-based York Space Systems has acquired Emergent Space Technologies in a transaction that expands the former’s software development and mission design services for the government sector. Laurel, Maryland-based Emergent is a small business focused on developing software and guidance, navigation and control systems for military, civil and c...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) will produce 4,343 units of handheld, manpack and small form fit radios for the U.S. Army under a purchase order worth $196 million. The service branch placed the order under a potential 10-year, $12.7 billion Joint Tactical Radio System contract awarded to Harris, now L3Harris, and two other vendors in 2016,...
Washington D.C.-based private equity firm Willow Creek Partners has created a company that government contracting industry veteran Caesar Nieves will lead to bring consulting, analytics, cyber and digital services to the federal sector. The One 23 Group will serve as the core of WCP’s government services portfolio and operate with over 200 emp...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) will provide enterprise technology services to the U.S. Special Operations Command under a multiyear, $463 million contract. USSOCOM works with Palantir to manage large amounts of data using the latter’s software platform to support decision-making processes, the data analytics company said Monday. “Our par...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business has secured a $2 billion contract modification for lot 17 F-35 aircraft engine manufacturing services in support of U.S. and international defense customers. The award from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command will fund the procurement of propulsion system materials, pa...
Concurrent Technologies Corp. seeks to help the U.S. Air Force bolster installation grid resilience and modernize flightline power generation under a pair of contracts from the branch’s research laboratory. The first contract, valued at $4.8 million, will focus on developing a direct current microgrid for Kirtland AF Base in New Mexico to redu...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a $29 million contract to design an overhead persistent infrared sensor payload for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning satellite network. The company will conduct an initial one-year OPIR sensor payload design for the first increment of Space Systems Command’s medium-Earth orbit c...
A Concurrent Technologies Corp.-led industry team will conduct technology research for a U.S. Marine Corps ground transport vehicle replacement initiative under a contract from the Office of Naval Research. CTC said Friday the partnership with BAE Systems, MSI Defense and Mack Trucks’ defense business aims to develop conceptual models of the N...
A Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary will manufacture 571 more Sidewinder infrared-tracking, short-range missiles under a $263.7 million production lot 23 contract modification for a U.S. Navy-led joint weapon procurement effort with the U.S. Air Force. The award to Raytheon Missiles & Defense represents exercised options for the suppl...
A new McAleese & Associates report estimates most defense prime contractors recorded a 3 percent growth in sales during the first quarter of 2023, indicating that labor availability is improving and supply chain deliveries are starting to stabilize. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, offered an an...
