L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has agreed to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) for approximately $4.7 billion in cash, or $58 per share, in a transaction that will allow the aerospace and defense contractor to further advance innovation and continue to deliver missile defense systems, hypersonics and other capabilities to the Department of ...
Boston-based Advent International has agreed to purchase Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) in an all-cash transaction worth approximately $6.4 billion, including debt, that will take the satellite imagery contractor private, the two companies said Friday. The $53-a-share price of the deal is a premium of 129 percent to Maxar’s Thursday closing o...
Image by Kristi Blokhin from Shutterstock.com CACI International (Consolidated Analysis Center, Inc) is a top-tier U.S. federal government contractor based in Reston, Virginia. Most of its customers are from the defense, security, homeland, healthcare, and intelligence departments. In the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2021, the company’s c...
The Department of Commerce has cleared a joint NASA-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration program to acquire spacecraft that will follow the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R Series. The agencies can now start the contracting process to build a Geostationary Extended Observations system and associated instruments, NOAA...
Metron will provide undersea mission autonomy software development and applied research investigation support services for the U.S. Navy under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The company said Thursday the contract with the Office of Naval Research covers mission simulation, algorithm research and development, objective planning, system-level perform...
Jeff Showalter, chief development officer at technical consulting firm John H. Northrop & Associates, will join HII‘s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division to serve as its vice president of operations, according to his LinkedIn post. The executive has over 25 years of experience in providing professional services as a business consulta...
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed data and storage service, has achieved FedRAMP and Department of Defense certification and is approved for public sector use. The service, offered by a NetApp-Amazon Web Services partnership, now has FedRAMP Moderate and High authorizations in select regions and meets impact levels two, four and five of...
SOS International subsidiary Exovera has named Mario Contreras, a more than three-decade special operations and intelligence professional, as chief data officer. In this role, he is focused on integrating acquisition, management and governance in the development and implementation of the company’s data strategy, Exovera said Tuesday. “Mario brin...
The governments of U.S. and Germany have agreed on the procurement of 35 F-35 Lightning II aircraft, manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), in a deal aimed at strengthening the latter’s operational interoperability with allied nation partners. The transaction covers the provision of engines, spare and replacement parts, mission equ...
Ernst & Young will help the Department of the Air Force audit its general fund and working capital fund under a potential five-year, $200.2 million contract from the Defense Finance Accounting Service. The labor-hour contract provides for audit services of financial statements and examination and includes a 12-month base period that runs through...
