Canada-based engineering services provider WSP Global has agreed to acquire John Wood Group’s environment and infrastructure business for approximately $1.81 billion in a transaction that would expand WSP’s earth and environment consulting practice in the U.S. WSP said Wednesday it expects the transaction to close in the fourth quarter of 20...
A consortium that comprises Thales, Leonardo, Indra Sistemas and Hensoldt will provide tactical data link communication systems to U.S. and European military customers under a five-year, $338.8 million contract. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command in California awarded the contract to Paris-based Euromids as part of the Multifunctional Informa...
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has issued a request for proposals for a potential 10-year, $4 billion contract to research, develop, test and evaluate scientific and technological platforms meant to help the Department of Defense counter and deter weapons of mass destruction. The Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction program is a multiple-award...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business will manufacture 1,300 anti-aircraft weapons for the U.S. Army under a four-year, $624 million contract. The company said Friday that funds for the order will come from an emergency spending package that offers additional aid to Ukraine and seeks to replenish the U.S. weapons sto...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has elevated Jeffrey Schrader from his post as vice president at its intelligence and space business to president of SEAKR Engineering and Blue Canyon Technologies. Schrader, who made the announcement via LinkedIn post, brings to his new leadership role at the Raytheon subsidiaries years-long experience in defense a...
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 ...
