An HII (NYSE: HII) business unit will help the U.S. Army Research Laboratory develop, test and evaluate defense systems under a five-year, $94 million task order. HII Mission Technologies will conduct R&D of sensors, weapons and other combat systems for use by mission partners of the Department of Defense, the company said Monday. The parent...
Ankur Rawat, an information technology industry executive, has joined CRDF Global as chief technology officer. He will oversee the digital strategy with a focus on advancing the nonprofit organization’s framework for digital resilience cybersecurity, CRDF Global said Friday. Mike Dignam, CEO of CRDF Global, said Rawat will bring to the role hi...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a $45.4 million award from the Army Contracting Command to conduct analytics and systems support for an information technology architecture that U.S. and allied nations use to exchange intelligence data. The company will support the Cross-Domain Enterprise All-Source User Repository under the cost-plus-...
Boston-based private equity firm Advent International and Canada-based British Columbia Investment Management Corp. have finalized their acquisition of Maxar Technologies in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6.4 billion, or $53.00 per share. With the transaction’s completion, Maxar will continue to operate as a U.S.-controlled a...
A partnership between Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTN) will manufacture man-portable, anti-tank guided munition systems for domestic and international defense customers under a U.S. Army contract worth potentially $7.2 billion. The award to Javelin Joint Venture has a base value of $1.02 billion and covers weapon pro...
By Mark Townsend, Vice President of Professional Services at Invicti Security With access to some of the world’s most sensitive and secure data and systems, the U.S. Department of Defense is a natural candidate to lead innovation on zero trust security. To that end, the department has set an ambitious five-year goal to deploy zero...
ITT (NYSE: ITT) has closed its $80 million acquisition of Micro-Mode Products, a manufacturer of radio frequency connector technology for satellite, radar and defense systems. Micro-Mode, which generated approximately $26 million in sales in 2022, will operate as part of ITT’s North American connectors business within its connect and control t...
Arnold Nowinski, former executive director of the launch and safety business at Axient, has been elevated to a vice president role within the same unit under Axient’s national security space segment. He will lead a team of engineers and scientists that conducts new entrant certification for launch platforms, verifies system safety at U.S. Spac...
HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies business will support the U.S. Navy’s shore-based training systems under a potential five-year, $242 million task order. The project will include applying a DevSecOps model to the hardware and software product development life cycle in support of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Da...
Space is at its largest inflection point in decades, and as commercial space activity continues to rise, United States government leaders are taking a page from industry’s book on how to drive more rapid innovation, especially in the face of increasing global competition. While technology and acquisition processes are typically at the center of th...
