The State Department has approved Taiwan’s request to buy medium self-propelled howitzer systems, manufactured by BAE Systems, and associated equipment from the U.S. government through a potential $750 million foreign military sales transaction. The Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. asked to procure 40 155mm M109A6...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its latest event on Wednesday to share the key trends impacting the government contractors in our sector and how to mature the capture process to grow a qualified pipeline and improve win rate during A Blueprint for a Modern, Data-Driven Approach to Capture Management Webinar. With Technomile’s Chief Operating Officer Mic...
John Mollard, vice president and treasurer at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has assumed the position of acting chief financial officer at the Bethesda, Maryland-based aerospace and defense contractor. He will fill the role while the company searches for a permanent replacement for Kenneth Possenriede, who decided to retire after a 35-year career with...
The State Department has approved a potential $270 million foreign military sales deal covering sustainment equipment and services for Greece’s F-16 fighter aircraft fleet. L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), Collins Aerospace, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Atec are the principa...
IntelliBridge, a McLean, Virginia-based portfolio company of Enlightenment Capital, has purchased U.Group to expand its technology portfolio and client base across federal civilian, defense and homeland security agencies. U.Group is a digital transformation company founded in 2010 and provides Agile development, consulting support, data science, Dev...
Arlington Capital Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm, has agreed to acquire the Electron Devices and Narda Microwave-West divisions of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) for an undisclosed sum. The divisions will eventually form an independent company called Stellant Systems upon the transaction’s closing, which is expected to o...
Crowley‘s government services business will continue to help U.S. Transportation Command coordinate surface freight activity for two Defense Department agencies under a one-year, $453 million contract modification. The company will perform work for the Defense Logistics Agency and Defense Contract Management Agency through July 31, 2022, as pa...
Gregory Kausner, executive director for international cooperation at the Department of Defense, has been assigned to perform the duties of defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment. DOD said Tuesday it also appointed Paul Cramer, DOD’s principal deputy assistant secretary for sustainment (installations), to serve as Kausner’...
PCX Aerosystems has acquired Santa Ana, California-based Integral Aerospace, a producer of metallic and composite parts for military, space and commercial systems, for an undisclosed sum. Connecticut-based PCX said Tuesday the deal expands its ability to manufacture parts for fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft platforms and provide support to the origi...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has taken over the responsibility for information technology operations of three shore-based Department of the Navy networks after the company completed the transition phase for the Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract‘s services portion. Reston, Virginia-based Leidos won the $7.7 billion NGEN-R Service Man...
