Aviation services provider AAR (NYSE: AIR) has purchased Trax USA, a software company that specializes in aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul. AAR said Monday that the acquisition aligns with its strategy to deliver digital platforms to aftermarket customers. Miami-based Trax was founded in 1999 and has since supported 5,000 aircraft through a...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Kathy Warden, chair, CEO and president of Northrop Grumman, as a 2023 Wash100 Award winner for aligning the company’s portfolio of technology offerings to priorities of defense customers and advancing strategic growth. This year marks the 10th iteration of Executive Mosaic’s annual list of the top 100...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has received a potential $145.3 million contract under the second iteration of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Enterprise Mobile Devices and Services program. VA announced the award to AT&T’s mobility national accounts business through a notice published Wednesday on SAM.gov. Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and T-Mobile USA (Na...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential $1.9 billion contract modification from the U.S. Army to produce 184 AH-64E Apache combat helicopters for the service branch and international customers, including Australia. The company said Friday the award brings the contract’s total funded value to $2.1 billion and could increase to more than $3.8 bil...
Maddox Defense has acquired Apollo 3 Energy, a solar optimization services provider, in a move to expand Maddox’s presence in the renewable energy market. Apollo 3 Energy works to help government customers, including the Naval Special Warfare Center and the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California, maximize energy savings on their projec...
As the nature of threats continues to evolve, novel technologies, such as artificial intelligence, the cloud and numerous others, have grown in priority as the U.S. works to maintain its information advantage. Military service officers and executives who took part in a panel discussion Wednesday at ExecutiveBiz’s Information Warfare Forum sa...
Shareholders at Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) have approved a proposed agreement to sell the company to L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and both parties expect the transaction to close in 2023, pending receipt of regulatory clearances and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions. Aerojet said Thursday 99.7 percent of the votes cast at...
John “JD” Parkes grew up attending defense trade shows with his father, who was a legacy Kodak commercial and government systems executive, so he’s always had an inherent understanding of the government contracting landscape. After Parkes earned an image science degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology, he immediately began a career ser...
Eighteen companies have won spots on a nine-year, $960 million U.S. Air Force contract to assist the Department of Defense and its partner nation agencies in combatting various security threats across the globe. USAF’s Air Combat Command Acquisition Management and Integration Center received 75 proposals for the Counter-Narcotics and Global Th...
Los Angeles-based Nexus Capital Management has acquired Aviation Ground Equipment Corp. for an undisclosed sum and will integrate AGEC as a new entity within HDT Global. Established in 1984, AGEC is a veteran-owned business that manufactures ground-based and shipboard ground power units, portable universal load banks and other aviation ground suppor...
