Software investment firm Thoma Bravo has completed its $10.55 billion acquisition of portions of Boeing’s digital aviation solutions business, including Jeppesen, ForeFlight, AerData and OzRunways. Boeing said Monday the all-cash transaction enables it to strengthen its capital structure and focus on its core business, including its reta...
AI is revolutionizing how the Department of Homeland Security performs its core mission: protecting the nation from its adversaries. By integrating advanced AI tools into missions such as threat detection, cybersecurity, border security and emergency response, the DHS is enhancing its ability to anticipate, identify and counter adversarial actors in...
Conti Federal Services, a construction and design-build firm, has received a $97.3 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Pacific Ocean Division, Honolulu District, to build company operations facilities at South Range Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. What Is the Scope of Conti Federal’s Design-Bid-Build Military Const...
Systems Planning & Analysis has acquired Group W, a Vienna, Virginia–based data science and defense analytics firm specializing in modeling, simulation and wargaming support for the Department of Defense. What Does the Acquisition Involve? The acquisition brings together two providers of defense analytical tools and expertise that support U.S....
American Rheinmetall has named Mike Milner as CEO of its munitions business and Chris Haag as vice president for business development and strategy. The appointments aim to strengthen the company’s presence in North America, the defense firm said Thursday in a LinkedIn post. Who Is Mike Milner? Milner brings more than 35 years of defense...
Boeing’s defense, space and security, or BDS, business reported $6.9 billion in fiscal 2025 third-quarter revenue, up 25 percent from the prior-year period, and an operating margin of 1.7 percent. In its earnings report published Wednesday, Boeing said the BDS segment ended the third quarter with a backlog of $76 billion, with 20 percent of...
Defense technology company AV has appointed Robert Horky, an aerospace industry executive, as a vice president. Horky announced his move to AV in a LinkedIn post published Monday. According to his profile on the professional networking site, he will oversee business development efforts within AV’s space, cyber and directed energy business segm...
Tricentis has launched a unified artificial intelligence workspace that links its portfolio of AI agents, AI platform services and Model Context Protocol, or MCP, servers into a central hub for quality engineering. “AI is reshaping not just how we code, but how we assure quality,” Eran Sher, chief product officer of Tricentis, said in a...
Textron has appointed Danny Maldonado as president and CEO of its Bell segment, effective Jan. 4, 2026. Maldonado currently serves as Bell’s chief commercial officer, Textron said Monday. Textron Chairman and CEO Scott Donnelly described Maldonado as “a proven leader with a long track record of success at Bell.” As CCO, Maldonado o...
Lynk Global and Omnispace have unveiled plans to merge to accelerate the deployment of advanced direct-to-device satellite connectivity. Upon completion of the merger, SES will assume a major shareholder position, helping expand D2D and internet of things, or IoT, services for mobile network operators, businesses and government clients usi...
