Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, estimates 4 percent to 7 percent growth in overall second quarter sales among defense primes. His analysis of contractor Q2 results covered Boeing (NYSE: BA), BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), L3Harris Technologies (NY...
Elinor Damo, formerly a director at Peraton, has joined the federal business of CGI (NYSE GIB) as vice president for consulting services. Damo announced her new role in a LinkedIn post and said that she will focus on CGI Federal’s Department of Homeland Security customers. She joined Peraton after its private-equity owner, Veritas Capital, acq...
NASA has asked industry for proposals to design, build and test multiple Mars ascent vehicles and related electrical and mechanical ground support equipment. The space agency will launch a full and open competition for the Mars Ascent Vehicle Integrated System program with plans to award a potential six-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on Fe...
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...
NASA will hold a full and open competition for the fourth iteration of a contract that provides for services and supplies in support of the space agency’s Sounding Rockets Program, a flight initiative for conducting rapid scientific experiments in space. The proposed NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract IV will cover program management and...
The U.S. Navy has indicated its intent to launch a full and open competition for a follow-on contract vehicle to procure afloat network devices, initial software, spares, laboratory equipment and software renewal and maintenance services. A presolicitation notice posted Monday on SAM.gov says the military branch is looking to release the competitive...
Investment company Endeavour Capital has acquired Forrest Machining Inc., also known as FMI Aerostructures, which produces structural components for aerospace and defense platforms. Tim Mickael, an aerospace executive with two decades of industry experience, joined FMI Aerostructures as CEO, and all current managers will remain with the company as p...
The U.S. Army has started its market research for the second iteration of an indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery contract for individual and collective mission command training support at various military facilities within and outside the continental U.S. A notice posted Monday on SAM.gov says the Mission Training Complex Capabilities Support II...
The U.S. Space Force has named ABL Space Systems, Astra Space and Relativity Space as the first on-ramp awardees on the Orbital Services Program-4 contract vehicle as part of efforts to expand the pool of vendors that could help launch payloads larger than 400 pounds to orbit within one to two years from task order...
The State Department has approved a potential $270 million foreign military sales deal covering sustainment equipment and services for Greece’s F-16 fighter aircraft fleet. L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), Collins Aerospace, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Atec are the principa...
