AirBoss of America‘s defense subsidiary has agreed to buy Rochester, New York-based wearable blast overpressure sensor provider BlackBox Biometrics for approximately $27 million in a move to expand survivability technology offerings for warfighters and first responders. Landover, Maryland-based AirBoss Defense Group said Monday its Critical So...
Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights has released a report stating that trends such as digitization and adaptive workplaces became prevalent over the past year. The Government Trends 2021 report, published Thursday, found that governments have accelerated the use of cloud, artificial intelligence and digital identity concepts while also ...
PCX Aerosystems, a mechanical parts supplier to the military and commercial aerospace sectors, has agreed to acquire the Connecticut-based metallic components manufacturing business of British technology company Senior for an undisclosed sum. The deal would add Senior Aerospace Connecticut‘s transmission and rotorhead products to the PCX portf...
IonQ has agreed to merge with dMY Technology Group III (NYSE: DMYI.U), a special purpose acquisition company, in a transaction that would result in the quantum computing developer becoming a publicly traded company. The boards of directors of both companies unanimously approved the deal that gives the combined entity a valuation of approximately $2 ...
Executive Mosaic is honored to unveil Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of the public sector group at Dell Technologies, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for advocating the potential benefits of modern computing systems and information technology par...
Stu Shea, president, CEO and chairman of Peraton and a 2021 Wash100 winner, said he believes adding Northrop Grumman’s (NYSE: NOC) information technology services business and Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) would better position Peraton in the federal IT services market, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. “Where Peraton will land is, we wi...
Gregory Nixon, chairman of Navistar Defense, has returned to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management as head of strategic investments, senior legal counsel and senior managing director. He will lead Cerberus’ efforts to identify new investment opportunities across the defense, technology and security markets, the New York City-based co...
Ensco has won a potential 20-year, $570.9 million contract to help the Federal Railroad Administration operate and maintain a Department of Transportation-owned facility intended for rail system research, development, test and training. The contract for support services to the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado, has a phase-in peri...
Armtec Defense Technologies will provide combustible case assemblies to the U.S. Army for 155mm propelling charges under a potential five-year, $207.7 million contract. The service branch is procuring M231/M232 modular artillery charge system cases through the firm-fixed-price contract, the Department of Defense said Friday. Army Contracting Command...
The White House is considering forming a task force to address a cyber attack on on-premise Microsoft Exchange Servers launched by a group of threat actors operating from China, CNN reported Sunday. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) issued security updates after it found that a state-sponsored threat actor from China, called Hafnium, was targeting defense co...
