Shareholders at Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) have approved a proposed agreement to sell the company to L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) and both parties expect the transaction to close in 2023, pending receipt of regulatory clearances and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions. Aerojet said Thursday 99.7 percent of the votes cast at...
Recent technological advancements have drastically altered the way the U.S. military operates in the modern battlespace, which holds a growing number of threats to the nation’s information advantage. To keep up with the rapid nature of modern technology transformation and maintain battlefield superiority, welcoming change and the opportunities it ...
Eighteen companies have won spots on a nine-year, $960 million U.S. Air Force contract to assist the Department of Defense and its partner nation agencies in combatting various security threats across the globe. USAF’s Air Combat Command Acquisition Management and Integration Center received 75 proposals for the Counter-Narcotics and Global Th...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has posted the final request for proposals for a potential 10-year, $60.7 billion contract vehicle covering a range of information technology and health IT services. Vendors can submit bids for the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation 2 program until April 17, according to a notice posted Tues...
Greg Myers, former vice president of federal sales at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been appointed to the advisory board of Ventech Solutions to advise the company on market growth trends and opportunities. He will join new member Mark Tomaino and returning members Penny Thompson and Ken Scalet, Ventech said Tuesday. “Ventech Solutions is exci...
NASA has released a request for proposals for a potential eight-year contract vehicle to provide enterprise information technology services for the space agency’s centers and facilities. The proposed NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services contract will provide information security; information and data analytics; IT innovation across...
The commercial space company of Sierra Nevada Corp. has appointed former Boeing (NYSE: BA) executive Tim Keating as chief strategy officer and senior vice president of global government operations. In his new role, Keating will lead the recently-established strategy and government affairs organization at Sierra Space, the SNC subsidiary said Tuesday...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded 15 companies positions on a recompete contract for professional, technical and scientific services in the satellite domain. NOAA competed the ProTech 2.0 Satellite Domain contract as a total small business set-aside program with 66 proposals received during the initial phase and 40 offe...
Firefly Aerospace has secured a $112 million contract to help NASA deploy one satellite and two payloads sometime in 2026 as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. The Texas-based space transportation builder will be responsible for integrating and delivering payloads from Earth to the moon’s surface and orbit...
Emerging trends and developments across the global defense landscape have catalyzed a shift within the United States toward new strategies, new technologies and refocused priorities. With factors such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the commercialization of space and the looming peer and near-peer threat, U.S. defense leaders are rethinking what the...
