Canada-based J.D. Irving and Systecon’s U.S. arm have partnered to help the Canadian navy accelerate digital transformation efforts for its fleet of surface combatant ships through the adoption of analytics and life cycle management platforms, GovCon Wire has learned. Under the partnership, J.D. Irving will use Systecon’s Opus Suite software to ...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has cleared a planned merger between Arlington, Virginia-based Leonardo DRS and Israeli radar maker RADA Electronic Industries (Nasdaq: RADA). Both parties first announced their all-stock transaction in June and they now expect to complete the business combination in late November or early Dec...
BAE Systems has received a potential five-year, $143 million contract from the U.S. Navy to continue providing engineering, management, information technology and maintenance support services to the military branch’s Surface Combat Systems Center in Wallops Island, Virginia. The company said Tuesday such services to be provided under the contract ...
Air Combat Command has released its final request for proposals for a potential $5.3 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle meant to help warfighters gain information advantage as they operate in the cyber domain. Offerors have until Oct. 26 to submit bids for the Enterprise Cyber Capabilities acquisition program, which has...
The U.K. government has approved Viasat’s (Nasdaq: VSAT) proposed acquisition of Inmarsat under the National Security and Investment Act. Mark Dankberg, executive chairman and CEO of Viasat, said in a statement published Friday Viasat has been a partner of U.K. national security and defense communities for over 10 years, particularly in the delive...
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received approval from the U.S. Army to begin the delivery of the initial order of 5,000 HoloLens-based combat goggles, Bloomberg reported Friday. Spokesman Jamal Beck said Douglas Bush, assistant secretary for acquisition at the Army, gave the service the clearance to start accepting 5,000 sets of the Integrated Visual ...
The British defense ministry is working with BAE Systems and three other companies to develop a next-generation fighter demonstrator platform and expects to fly the aircraft model within the next five years. BAE leads an industry team composed of Leonardo, Rolls-Royce and MBDA in efforts to provide the U.K. military a piloted supersonic test vehicle...
Following the completion of the all-stock merger between Vectrus and Vertex that resulted in the establishment of V2X, Chuck Prow, CEO of the new and more diversified company, engaged in a Q&A with GovCon Wire to share the early discussions about the combination and to expound on the rationale behind the transaction. The eight-time recipient...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has received a potential five-year, $145.5 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide spare parts for several combat vehicles. The spare parts are intended for the U.S. Army’s Abrams main battle tanks, Stryker family of vehicles, Buffalo, Cougar, RG-31 and family of light armo...
Vectrus has closed its all-stock merger with The Vertex Company to form a new government services provider that will be known as V2X and has an estimated pro forma annual revenue of $3.4 billion. Both companies announced the transaction March 7, saying the combination looks to grow across the GovCon market areas of operations and...
