Alion Science and Technology has agreed to buy MacAulay-Brown for an undisclosed sum to expand work with national security customers and engineering and technology offerings. Steve Schorer, Alion president and CEO and a 2018 Wash100 winner, said in a statement released Thursday the company made the acquisition in a push to “strengthen our...
NASA has tapped four companies to provide integration and launch services for a program that aims to leverage commercial suborbital reusable platforms to test new technologies near the boundary of space. The Flight Opportunities Program will involve Aerostar International, Blue Origin Texas, UP Aerospace and World View Enterprises launching res...
Jim Maser, a more than 32-year aerospace industry veteran and former president of technical consulting firm James G. Advisors, has been named senior vice president of Aerojet Rocketdyne‘s (NYSE: AJRD) space business in a move that takes effect Aug. 13. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Wednesday Maser will report directly to President and CEO ...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has acquired Germane Systems for approximately $45 million cash in a move to grow the former’s portfolio of rugged servers and command, control and information processing technologies. The purchase price is subject to working capital and debt adjustments and Mercury financed the transaction with funds from a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 31, 2018 ” Dwight Hunsicker, executive vice president and general manager of government solutions at Globecomm Systems, has said U.S. government agencies can utilize satellite network technologies to deliver secure and resilient broadband connectivity for deployed personnel, ExecutiveBiz reported July 17. Hunsicker ...
The Department of Defense has announced its $10 billion, Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud services contract will stay single sourced, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. The DoD revealed the decision in their final request for proposals. Single sourcing the award has been highly controversial among defense contractors and...
Octo Consulting Group has appointed Simon Godwin, a certified project management professional, as vice president of federal civilian programs, and Craig Summers, formerly VP of technology at CollabraLink Technologies, as VP for commerce accounts. Mehul Sanghani, CEO and founder of Octo, said in a statement published Thursday Godwin and Summers both ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 26, 2018 ” ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has found via a survey that 90 percent of federal agency leaders believe their organizations should prioritize citizen experience in their digital transformation initiatives, even as 80 percent indicate greater focus on back-end technology, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The comp...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 25, 2018 ” An SSL-built communications satellite has begun post-launch operations following its deployment Sunday as part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) company said Monday the Telstar 19 VANTAGE satel...
Greg Hayes, CEO of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has said the company is œon track with the regulatory clearance process and in the final phase of completion with regard to its pending $30 billion acquisition of Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL), The Gazette reported Tuesday. œWe expect the transaction to close here still in ...
