Firefly Aerospace, an AE Industrial Partners portfolio company, has acquired Spaceflight for an undisclosed sum to further strengthen its portfolio of on-orbit hosting and servicing, responsive launch and in-space mobility, lunar delivery operations and other space transportation services. Spaceflight has supported the fielding of more than 460 payl...
A new McAleese & Associates report estimates most defense prime contractors recorded a 3 percent growth in sales during the first quarter of 2023, indicating that labor availability is improving and supply chain deliveries are starting to stabilize. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, offered an an...
Thirty-seven vendors have won spots on a potential 10-year, $32.5 billion multiple-award contract for the design, development, production and sustainment of training systems. The Training Systems Acquisition IV indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers analysis, installation, integration and testing support for aircrew, maintenance and...
The U.S. Army has selected a dozen companies for a 10-year, $450 million contract vehicle to support its modernization and combat overmatch capability development efforts. Army Contracting Command received 27 bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation and will determine funds and work locations on a per-or...
Suzanne Jones, formerly a senior director at BAE Systems, has been named vice president of business winning at nonprofit engineering innovation company Draper. She will lead Draper’s capture and proposal process restructuring efforts and brings 21 years of experience to her new position, the organization said Wednesday. Jones most recently ser...
The U.S. Army has exercised the first option period of its other transaction agreements with four companies to review proposed designs for increment two of the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System. Griffon Aerospace, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Sierra Nevada Corp. and Texton Systems (NYSE: TXT) will go through preliminary and critical design r...
Private equity firm FR Capital has purchased data management and communications technology provider Fregata Systems in a bid to penetrate the market for command, control, communication, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms. The acquisition is one of FR Capital’s planned strategic investments in the C5ISR se...
Since the 1980s, the United States has been pivoting along an ever-evolving tract of developing technologies to protect against and respond to adversarial missile attacks. The Missile Defense Agency (once the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) aims to be agile in its stance toward threats from r...
After a competitive four months and tens of thousands of votes, Executive Mosaic is excited to announce that the winner of the 2023 Wash100 popular vote competition is the resolute Department of Defense cornerstone, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. This year, a staggering nearly 40,000 votes were cast in support of the esteemed recipients of the 2...
GovCon industry veteran Damian DiPippa has been appointed CEO of Aretum, the newly created government services platform company within Renovus Capital Partners. Atif Gilani, founding partner at Renovus Capital, said in a statement published Thursday DiPippa’s experience and knowledge of the government services sector will enable him to impleme...
