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...
Anthony Vultaggio, chief technology officer at SMX, said government agencies seeking to address the complexities of security compliance and data protection across multicloud and hybrid cloud environments should look for an industry partner that can perform the job of a managed service provider and a managed security service provider. “In a traditi...
Amira Hossain, formerly senior vice president of corporate development and integration at ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI), has joined Science Applications International Corp. (Nasdaq: SAIC) as SVP of corporate development. Hossain brings strategic insights and extensive negotiation capabilities and will help lead the company’s growth strategy, SAIC said in...
Sierra Nevada Corp. has won a potential $13.1 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop and produce a new aircraft to replace the service branch’s fleet of E-4B National Airborne Operations Center planes, also known as Nightwatch. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center conducted a competitive acquisition process and received two offe...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index and Wall Street ended the week strong due to a broad market rally. The index, which tracks the stock performances of 30 major government contractors, edged 0.21% higher Friday to $4,871.91, suitable for a 1.94% week-on-week gain. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 2.02% for a weekly gain of 4.2%. Alphabet (Nasdaq: G...
Brent Mitchell, a technology industry executive, has taken on the position of vice president of go-to-market at Google’s public sector arm. He announced his appointment in a LinkedIn post published Friday. Mitchell most recently served as VP of U.S. state and local government and education at Google Public Sector. In 2019, he joined Google from...
The U.S. Army Product Director Aerostats is requesting information on potential industry sources capable of providing production, fielding, sustainment and life cycle support to aerostat systems designed to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has an estim...
Fusion Technology has secured a five-year, $159.8 million contract to help the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division adopt Scaled Agile Framework practices and methodologies to support the development of its mission-critical systems. The company said Thursday it will provide a team of Agile practitioners who will define, build a...
Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX (NYSE: RTX), has received a $344 million contract to build and deliver two Standard Missile variants with a common guidance section to U.S. and international military customers. The company said Thursday it will produce the SM-2 Block IIICU and SM-6 Block IU missiles on a common production line for the...
