BlueHalo has bought Maryland-based companies Fortego and Base2 Engineering in a pair of deals aimed to expand signal intelligence and cyber offerings for the national security sector. Baird and Aronson Capital Partners advised the acquired firms on the transactions. "Bringing Fortego and Base2 together creates a sizable concentration of highly ...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has secured a $496M engineering and manufacturing development contract to build aircraft-based jamming system pods for the U.S. Navy. The company will provide eight operational prototypes and four test pods of the branch's Next Generation Jammer Low Band system, Naval Air Systems Command said Friday....
Jeff Bohling, senior vice president and general manager of the defense group at Perspecta, will participate in GovConWire’s Air Force: IT Plans and Priorities Forum on January 5th as the keynote moderator. Lauren Knausenberger, deputy chief information officer of the U.S. Air Force, will deliver the keynote address at the virtual event. To registe...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential 12-year, $611.5M contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce electronic digital telecommunication systems intended for military command-and-control use. The company will provide C2 switching systems to function as a Defense Red Switch Network component designed to help users manage voice and ...
During Potomac Officers Club’s 7th Annual Defense Research and Development (R&D) Summit, notable federal and industry leaders will meet to discuss the latest priorities across the R&D landscape. Featuring Dr. Mark Lewis, acting deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and director of defense research and engineering fo...
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KBR has received a five-year, $49 million task order to assist the U.S. Army's Cargo Helicopter Project Management Office in aircraft system acquisition and reliability improvement efforts. The company said Wednesday it aims to help the Army manage the availability and life cycle of the branch's CH-47 Chinooks....
Octo, a Reston, Virginia-based government information technology services provider, and software development company Sevatec have merged to form a combined organization that will provide tech platforms and services to help federal government clients address complex IT challenges. Mehul Sanghani, founder and CEO of Octo, said the transaction creates ...
The U.S. Army has awarded the National Spectrum Consortium a potential $2.5B prototype other transaction agreement to help coordinate research and development projects designed to improve spectrum utilization, advance microelectronics and upgrade communications infrastructure to enable protected and resilient networks....
Moises DelToro III, a three-decade U.S. Navy veteran and former head of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, has joined Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) as a principal within the company's Navy Marine Corps account. DelToro will help the company engage with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and grow in the market that serves Naval Sea Systems Command...
