U.S. military branches are ramping up efforts to help the Department of Defense achieve objectives it has set for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy. To enable data sharing across the different services within the agency, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved a strategy document for the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Dom...
Hughes Network Systems plans to offer satellite communications platforms to the U.S. Air Force through the company’s prime position on a $950 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the development of an all-domain military information sharing system. Germantown, Maryland-based Hughes said Tuesday it was one of the compani...
Castellum has purchased Specialty Systems Inc., a government contractor headquartered in Toms River, New Jersey, for an undisclosed sum. SSI, which was founded by CEO Emil Kaunitz in 1978, supports the U.S. Navy at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey in software engineering, program support, cybersecurity, network and systems engineering ...
Cobham has agreed to acquire U.K.-based defense contractor Ultra Electronics for approximately $3.56 billion, Reuters reported Monday. Ultra shareholders will get 35 pounds per share, up from 28 pounds per share that U.K.-based aerospace and defense contractor Cobham initially offered for the former. Ultra offers sensors, torpedo, radar systems, for...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has signed a $400 million cash deal to acquire U.K.-based systems engineering and technology services provider Frazer-Nash Consultancy from Babcock International Group in a move to expand KBR’s global advisory market footprint. Houston-based KBR said Friday its board of directors unanimously approved the proposed acquisition an...
The U.S. Navy has awarded three multiple-award contracts worth approximately $2.76 billion combined to provide sustainment support for littoral combat ships homeported in Mayport, Florida. BAE Systems’ ship repair business and Fincantieri Marine Systems North America will compete for delivery orders under a potential five-year, $1.3 billion contra...
Seven joint ventures and seven independent firms have won spots on a potential $2 billion contract vehicle to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Air Force’s airfield infrastructure projects worldwide. The 772nd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron received 25 proposals for Pool 1 of the AE-Next acquisition program via full and ...
The Department of Commerce has posted a draft solicitation for its information technology services requirement and invited potential vendors and minority-owned small businesses to participate in two separate industry days meant to further inform them about the planned acquisition. The event for future primes will be hosted virtually on Thursday whil...
Carlos Del Toro, president and CEO of Virginia-based professional services company SBG Technology Solutions, has been confirmed by the Senate to serve as the 78th U.S. Navy secretary. Del Toro received Senate confirmation through a voice vote Saturday, nearly two months after the White House announced his nomination for the Navy’s top civilian...
Leonardo‘s U.S. defense subsidiary has purchased Ascendant Engineering Solutions, a producer of gimbals that allow sensors or cameras to rotate and change direction, in a move to offer integrated sensing platforms in the domestic military sector. Arlington, Virginia-based Leonardo DRS said Thursday it plans to combine its electro-optical and i...
