Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has opened a new facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where its teams will work to deliver missile defense capabilities and strategic deterrent systems to government and military customers. The company said Monday the new building has advanced engineering, research laboratories and software development factories, and ...
Deborah Dunie, former executive vice president and chief technology officer at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined the board of directors of Perry, Georgia-based Sigma Defense Systems. Sigma Defense CEO John Wilcox said in a statement published Monday Dunie brings to the company over 30 years of experience serving in the Department of Defens...
Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has selected eight companies to compete for large construction projects within NAVFAC’s mid-Atlantic area of operations through a five-year, $950 million contract vehicle. The contractors can offer design-build and design-bid-build services to demolish, repair or modify facilities, the Department of...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 23, 2021 — BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary developed an open architecture system-of-systems testbed to help military customers assess technologies and data management processes, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 6. The company said Aug. 5 its virtual SoS testbed functions as a system integration and engineering tool designed t...
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...
