Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) has acquired Southern Research’s engineering division for $75 million in cash and $5 million worth of common shares to expand Kratos’ capabilities in hypersonic, space, ballistic missile and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance areas. The acquired business will operate as Kratos...
Brightstar Capital Partners has wrapped up the partnership of its portfolio company ERC with Oasis Systems in a move aimed to combine complementary service offerings for federal and defense agencies. The combination came a month after Brightstar agreed to buy and merge Oasis Systems with ERC. ERC-Oasis will provide support services in various areas ...
Airbus will continue to provide spare parts, related materials and engineering support for the U.S. Army’s fleet of 482 UH-72A and UH-72B Lakota utility and training helicopters under a potential five-year, $1.5 billion follow-on contract. Airbus said Monday its U.S. space and defense business will oversee the Contractor Logistics Support contract...
Brent Wildasin, a retired U.S. Army veteran, and Dawn Legere, a two-decade defense industry veteran, will assume the roles of CEO and chief operating officer, respectively, at systems integration firm PD Systems starting on June 1. Wildasin will succeed Martin Ried, who will move to a new role on PD Systems’ board of directors, and...
Jeff Stevens, senior vice president for the surface transportation group at Ensco, has been selected by the board to serve as president of the Springfield, Virginia-based engineering company and its wholly owned subsidiaries beginning on July 2. He will succeed Boris Nejikovsky, who will retire after a three-decade career at Ensco, the company said ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has promoted 13-year company veteran Lucas Firliet to director of information technology within its defense systems business sector. The former automation and controls engineering manager wrote in a LinkedIn post that he will support the segment’s digital transformation efforts in his new position. Firliet started ...
Tonya Wilkerson, deputy director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), was presented her 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson on May 3rd during a recent visit to NGA Campus East in Springfield, VA. Executive Mosaic was thrilled to recognize Tonya Wilkerso...
Salas O’Brien, an engineering and facility planning services provider, has merged with Nelson Engineering to create a combined company that will serve federal clients and represent more than 50 offices. The merger brings the combined entity’s workforce headcount to 1,500, including 360 registered professionals, and aims to provide multi-discipli...
The U.S. Air Force has released a request for proposals for a 10-year, $420 million contract to modernize and maintain KC-135 aerial refueling and transport planes. USAF said Friday in a solicitation notice the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract encompasses recurring and nonrecurring engineering tasks and requires personnel with variou...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business will continue to produce, test and deliver digital modular radios to the U.S. Navy under a potential two-year, $49.9 million contract modification. The modification brings the ceiling amount of the previously awarded contract to approximately $235.9 million and includes the provision of High Fr...
