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...
The Government Accountability Office has dismissed protests against NASA’s award of a potential $2.89 billion contract to SpaceX to further develop a human landing system that would transport two astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the Artemis program. NASA said Saturday GAO’s decision will enable the space agency and SpaceX to...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary will continue to engineer operational strategic and attack submarines for the U.S. Navy under a $225.1 million contract modification. Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate $3.1 million at the time of award and expects GDEB to complete services in September 2023, the Department of Defense ...
Anduril Industries has named former senior government and national security officials David Goldfein, Kevin McAleenan, Katharina McFarland, Constantine Saab and Scott Swift to the newly formed advisory board to help inform the defense technology company’s strategy and build up relationships with government partners. The company said Tuesday the me...
Broadtree Partners has purchased Washington, D.C.-based professional services company Sayres and Associates in a strategy to reach the defense and national security markets. The acquisition makes Sayres the 12th portfolio company and fourth GovCon-focused investment of Broadtree, the private equity firm said Monday. Founded in 2001, Sayres initially...
Telos (Nasdaq: TLS) has purchased the ONYX touchless fingerprinting software, all patents and other assets of Diamond Fortress Technologies for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its digital identity and biometric intellectual property portfolio. Telos said Monday it will integrate DFT’s ONYX software with its IDTrust360 platform, whi...
