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Day and Zimmermann has acquired Empire Products Inc., which makes propellant and charge bags for the defense sector, in a deal aimed at expanding D&Z’s munition product manufacturing operations. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed and D&Z said Wednesday EPI has been a key partner for the company’s supply chain. ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) posted $9.6 billion in sales for the second quarter of 2023, up 9 percent from the prior-year period’s figure of $8.8 billion, and ended the quarter with a total backlog of $78.8 billion. The Falls Church, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor said Thursday its Q2 2023 net awards totaled $10.9 billion...
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will engineer systems for the U.S. Air Force’s intercontinental ballistic missile system modernization program under a $165.9 million task order. Under the three-year award, APL will also continue to research and develop specialized functions to support the Sentinel weapon system, the Dep...
Peraton has secured a potential five-year, $330.3 million contract from NASA to take over the responsibility of supporting suborbital flight operations at Wallops Flight Facility. Under the Sounding Rocket Operations IV contract, Peraton will perform suborbital payload design, fabrication and integration activities and conduct flight qualification t...
Kathryn Simpson, vice president and associate general counsel of the mission systems sector at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been promoted to corporate VP and general counsel in a move that takes effect Oct. 30. She will take over the responsibility of overseeing Northrop’s legal affairs from the retiring Sheila Cheston and will report dir...
Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX (NYSE: RTX), has promoted Amanda Sorensen to senior vice president of human resources, she announced in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday. Sorensen had been VP and chief HR officer of the company since April 2022, when the company was operating as Raytheon Intelligence & Space. Her career in human resources...
Tamim Aslamy, a more than two-decade defense market veteran, has assumed the chief financial officer role at Raytheon Solipsys, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary focused on developing command and control platforms for military and homeland security use. He announced his new role in a LinkedIn post Monday and comes to Solipsys from RTX, where he...
Amy Hart, a contract management professional with two decades of industry experience, has joined nonprofit engineering innovation company Draper as vice president of contracts. Hart will report directly to Draper President and CEO Jerry Wohletz and oversee contract life cycle management in her new position, the company said Tuesday. She has managed ...
NASA has chosen seven companies to carry out technology development projects to support the agency’s human space exploration and commercialization goals in low Earth orbit. Each participating vendor in the Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities-2 program will develop systems through an unfunded Space Act Agreement, the agency said Fr...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured an $80.3 million sole-source contract to develop and demonstrate a communication system using military platforms and commercial space internet services. The company will help the service branch test system using common user terminal equipment under the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet p...
