Rocket Software, a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity, has closed its acquisition of OpenText’s (Nasdaq: OTEX) application modernization and connectivity business for approximately $2.3 billion. Rocket Software said Tuesday it expects the transaction to increase its revenue by 60 percent and broaden its client base to over 12,500 com...
Carahsoft Technology has secured a potential $172.8 million blanket purchase agreement to provide the Department of Navy with VMware by Broadcom products and services. The DON Enterprise License Agreement BPA was made as part of a reseller or software publisher software category management deal for commercial-off-the-shelf information technology ass...
BAE Systems has secured a $365 million contract from NASA to build an air quality monitoring instrument for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite constellation. The GeoXO Atmospheric Composition instrument is a hyperspectral spectrometer that will take hourly observations of air pol...
Former military service members Roy Kitchener and David Gaedecke have been appointed senior executive advisers at Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) global defense business. Both veterans bring decades of military experience and will provide advice to Booz Allen’s leadership team on the development and delivery of new capabilities for glo...
The board of directors at Eutelsat America Corp. has appointed Kevin Steen, president and CEO of OneWeb Technologies, to lead the combined EAC and OneWeb Technologies entity. He will serve as president and CEO of both EAC and OneWeb Technologies and oversee the integration of the companies’ teams and businesses following the completion of thei...
Intrepid has received a potential five-year, $445.8 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide support services for the General Fund Enterprise Business System. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama launched an online solicitation and received one offer for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesda...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) reported strong top- and bottom-line results in the first quarter of 2024. The provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services to clients in the national security, engineering, and health sectors also raised its full-year guidance. Thomas Bell, CEO of Leidos and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, said in a st...
The State Department has cleared Saudi Arabia’s request to procure blanket order training and related program and logistics support services from the U.S. government under a potential $250 million foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday the proposed FMS deal provides precision targeting, core tech...
Special Aerospace Services, a portfolio company of Godspeed Capital Management, has acquired Willbrook Solutions, a Huntsville, Alabama-headquartered provider of analytics services to defense, civilian and intelligence sectors. Willbrook will bring a team of 75 cleared industry professionals who support critical missile defense programs to SAS, a ne...
Luxembourg-based satellite communications company SES has agreed to buy Intelsat for approximately $3.1 billion to create a multiorbit operator that offers an expanded suite of satellite-based capabilities, greater coverage, spectrum portfolio and a ground network to serve customers worldwide. The boards of directors of SES and Intelsat have unanimo...
