Communications & Power Industries has agreed to acquire L3Harris Technologies’ (NYSE: LHX) ESSCO business for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand CPI’s portfolio of ground-based radomes for defense and government agency clients. Massachusetts-based ESSCO manufactures ground-based metal space frame radomes supporting air defen...
Northrop Grumman‘s ( NYSE: NOC) space systems business will deliver at least six missile boost vehicles to the Missile Defense Agency under a potential 10-year, $421.6 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Department of Defense said Friday MDA is also procuring spare BV components for the anti-ballistic missile componen...
Redwire will officially launch Friday as a publicly listed space infrastructure company following the completion of its merger with Genesis Park Acquisition (NYSE: GNPK), a blank check company. Redwire will list its common stock and warrants on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols “RDW” and “RDW WS,” respectively, the compani...
The White House and the Defense Department have signaled to prioritize initiatives that will tackle climate change through innovation in clean energy and data analytics technology. It took $3.6 billion of taxpayer’s money to replace the Marine Corps buildings in North Carolina that Hurricane Florence damaged in 2018. Not long after came Hurric...
The U.S. Army has asked industry to submit white papers for a program that seeks to provide brigade combat teams with an unmanned aircraft system capability to perform surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The service plans to deploy a high Technology Readiness Level, vertical takeoff and landing UAS by the second quarter of fiscal year 2023...
Thirteen lawmakers have expressed their support for Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) proposed acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) in their joint letter to Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary at the Department of Defense, Reuters reported Wednesday. Lockheed first announced its move to acquire the rocket propulsion maker for approximately ...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its IT Modernization and Transformation Forum on Wednesday to bring together a handful of the most significant members of the federal landscape as well as those who want to learn more about the current set of challenges surrounding our cybersecurity systems, data modernization goals and IT transformation strategies. As the ...
Shareholders at blank check company Genesis Park Acquisition (NYSE: GNPK) approved Wednesday the proposed combination with Redwire, a space infrastructure company. Holders of approximately 73 percent of Genesis Park’s outstanding shares as of Aug. 2, or about 97 percent of the votes cast at the special meeting, voted in favor of the merger agreeme...
BlackSky Holdings, a Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial intelligence provider, has received an equity investment from Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) to enable it to meet the customers’ demand for global monitoring services and further expand its capabilities. BlackSky said Wednesday it will also broaden the delivery of deep analytics and high-...
The service division of Fairbanks Morse Defense has secured $230 million in contracts to help Military Sealift Command maintain various ship classes and to repair emergency diesel generators for U.S. Navy submarines. A potential five-year $170 million contract with MSC will include technical support for command platforms such as T-AKR vehicle cargo ...
