An industry team led by L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a potential 10-year, $343 million contract to design a telecommunications network for an Australian government-owned air navigation service provider. L3Harris said Tuesday it will lead a consortium tasked with planning and designing an integrated enterprisewide system for Airservi...
Communications & Power Industries has agreed to acquire L3Harris Technologies’ (NYSE: LHX) ESSCO business for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand CPI’s portfolio of ground-based radomes for defense and government agency clients. Massachusetts-based ESSCO manufactures ground-based metal space frame radomes supporting air defen...
The head of the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office will keynote a Sept. 16 virtual forum hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to kick off a half-day event about ongoing government and industry efforts to develop fifth-generation wireless communications technologies. Jay Dryer was appointed to the SCO director post in January ...
Five companies secured spots on a potential $556 million U.S. Navy contract with a ceiling value of $800 million to deliver technical support for the Office of Chief of Naval Operations’ information technology department. Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), CACI International (NYSE: CACI), Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), ...
Pratt & Whitney, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary, has received a $736.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide military service branches and non-Department of Defense organizations with spare parts for the F-35 aircraft propulsion system. The contractor will also deliver F-135 engine modules, support equipment...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 7, 2021 — Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency update and maintain a web-based map data crowdsourcing platform under a five-year, $26.4 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 20. Tony Frazier, executive vice president of global field operations at Maxar and a five-time...
The U.S. subsidiary of CAE (NYSE: CAE) has purchased a minority interest in a SkyWarrior business that primarily offers flight training services to the military sector. Pensacola, Florida-based SkyWarrior currently supports the Naval Introductory Flight Evaluation program for student aviators at the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, CAE said Tuesday. Dan ...
The White House and the Defense Department have signaled to prioritize initiatives that will tackle climate change through innovation in clean energy and data analytics technology. It took $3.6 billion of taxpayer’s money to replace the Marine Corps buildings in North Carolina that Hurricane Florence damaged in 2018. Not long after came Hurric...
Red Cat Holdings (Nasdaq: RCAT) has completed its purchase of Utah-based unmanned aircraft system manufacturer Teal Drones in an effort to expand into the military sector and pursue business growth opportunities. Following the closure of the all-stock acquisition deal, Red Cat will add Teal to its enterprise segment that also covers remote inspectio...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its IT Modernization and Transformation Forum on Wednesday to bring together a handful of the most significant members of the federal landscape as well as those who want to learn more about the current set of challenges surrounding our cybersecurity systems, data modernization goals and IT transformation strategies. As the ...
