TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 23, 2021 — BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary developed an open architecture system-of-systems testbed to help military customers assess technologies and data management processes, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 6. The company said Aug. 5 its virtual SoS testbed functions as a system integration and engineering tool designed t...
Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal services arm has finalized its purchase of McLean, Virginia-based analytics company Novetta for an undisclosed sum and added a national security portfolio to its business as a result of the acquisition. Tiffanny Gates, president and CEO of Novetta and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said in a statement published Thu...
U.S. military branches are ramping up efforts to help the Department of Defense achieve objectives it has set for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy. To enable data sharing across the different services within the agency, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved a strategy document for the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Dom...
New York-based private equity firm ATL Partners has purchased Geost, an Arizona-based maker of sensors that can detect and protect satellites from other spacecraft and space debris, for an undisclosed sum, Defense One reported Wednesday. ATL plans to further build up Geost through acquisitions and investments and intends to boost the company’s bud...
Matt Donovan, most recently undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, will serve as vice president of customer engagement and solutions at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business, effective Aug. 23. He will directly report to Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Intelligence and Space and a 2021 Wash100 Award ...
Hughes Network Systems plans to offer satellite communications platforms to the U.S. Air Force through the company’s prime position on a $950 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the development of an all-domain military information sharing system. Germantown, Maryland-based Hughes said Tuesday it was one of the compani...
Phantom Space has acquired Micro Aerospace Solutions for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to build up its mass manufacturing capabilities for satellites, propulsion systems, launch vehicles and other space transportation technologies. Melbourne, Florida-based MAS has been developing microsatellites, propulsion systems, thruster design, computer...
Castellum has purchased Specialty Systems Inc., a government contractor headquartered in Toms River, New Jersey, for an undisclosed sum. SSI, which was founded by CEO Emil Kaunitz in 1978, supports the U.S. Navy at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey in software engineering, program support, cybersecurity, network and systems engineering ...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has been awarded a $960 million contract to provide hardware and software procurement services to the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center for the terminal segment of a joint service satellite communications system. The company will also conduct logistics and depot activation efforts for the Advanced Extremely High...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has won a potential $126.7 million contract to provide mission-critical information technology support services to the federally owned Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An award notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov says the MITS contract encompasses technology assessment and modernization; system ...
