Defense and aerospace contractor Linquest has secured a potential $970 million contract from the Space Systems Command for the procurement of digital engineering and development support services. SSC Contract Scope The Department of Defense said Friday the company was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Phase III indefinite-delivery/in...
Houston-based KBR (NYSE: KBR) has finalized its acquisition of LinQuest in a transaction that expands its engineering, data analytics and digital integration capabilities in support of national security space missions. KBR said Tuesday it will start integrating the acquired company into its government solutions segment and defense and intelligence b...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has agreed to acquire LinQuest for approximately $737 million to expand its digital integration and related technical capabilities for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community agencies. Houston-based KBR said Tuesday its board of directors unanimously approved the transaction, which is expected to conclude in the third qu...
Tessa Baerlocher, most recently deputy general manager of the space superiority business group at LinQuest, has assumed the role of vice president and business lead of the space systems technology developer’s TMC Design subsidiary. In this capacity, she will oversee growth initiatives within TMC and advance modernization in the areas of digita...
LinQuest has acquired Capability Analysis and Measurement Organization in a move to provide research, development, test and evaluation support to U.S. Special Operations Command and other defense agencies. CAMO has more than a decade of experience supporting USSOCOM and its component commands with testing and integration of warfighting systems, LinQ...
LinQuest has acquired defense technology company Hellebore Consulting Group for an undisclosed sum to expand capabilities in support of digital transformation efforts of Air Force Materiel Command and other customers in Dayton, Ohio. Beavercreek, Ohio-based Hellebore was founded in 2018 and provides DevSecOps and software engineering services in sup...
Greg Young, chief operating officer of LinQuest since November 2019, has taken the helm as the company’s president and CEO. He succeeds Timothy Dills, who has retired after nearly four years in the dual role, the space systems development and integration services provider said Wednesday. “I am thrilled to carry on LinQuest’s legacy of cust...
Coming out of his undergraduate work in chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Kent Wilcher considered three industries: oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and defense. After some brief deliberation, his answer was fairly easy. He decided to serve the defense industry because of his belief in its mission—he wanted something highly technica...
LinQuest will advise and assist the U.S. Space Force’s Space Operations Command under a potential nine-year, $200 million contract. The Department of Defense said Tuesday SpOC’s space acquisition directorate at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado received one offer for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a compet...
Kent Wilcher, former vice president of growth and sales at Jacobs (NYSE: J), has been named senior vice president and chief growth officer at Los Angeles-based space systems technology provider LinQuest. LinQuest said Tuesday Wilcher will lead the integration of growth initiatives, align its sales pipeline with corporate strategy, oversee a business...
