Cobham, a global technology company backed by private equity firm Advent International, is considering acquiring Andover, Massachusetts-based defense electronics supplier Mercury Systems (NYSE: MRCY), Bloomberg reported Wednesday. U.K.-based Cobham eyes Mercury as a potential acquisition target after the latter’s board of directors moved to ex...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business has secured a five-year, $481.6 million contract to help the U.S. Army maintain a signals intelligence and electronic warfare system for ground military vehicles. The GDMS unit will provide sustainment services for the Prophet Enhanced Detecting System as part of the cost-no-fee, cost-plus-...
LinQuest has acquired defense technology company Hellebore Consulting Group for an undisclosed sum to expand capabilities in support of digital transformation efforts of Air Force Materiel Command and other customers in Dayton, Ohio. Beavercreek, Ohio-based Hellebore was founded in 2018 and provides DevSecOps and software engineering services in sup...
BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services unit will continue to help the U.S. Air Force integrate hardware and software into Intercontinental Ballistic Missile systems under a $651.6 million contract modification. The two-year contract entails sustaining engineering support to the Minuteman III and Sentinel Systems Directorates, the Depar...
John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s 2023 Wash100, said he is working on a new DOD guidance on the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program as part of efforts to ensure “cloud rationalization” and enable the government to get the best mission outcome and value for...
An Amentum subsidiary will maintain the U.S. Navy’s F-5 light fighter aircraft at the organizational, intermediate and depot levels under a $100 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. PAE Aviation and Technical Services will also perform logistics support work and is expected to complete services in March 2024, the Depa...
Michelle McCarthy, senior vice president and chief accounting officer of Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY), has been named interim chief financial officer at the Andover, Massachusetts-headquartered aerospace and defense electronics supplier. She will replace Michael Ruppert, who will step down as CFO on Feb. 17 after five years in the role, the compan...
The U.S. subsidiary of MBDA will manufacture common anti-air modular missiles for maritime use under a potential $145.56 million contract from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command. Under the four-year contract, MBDA Inc. will produce CAMM systems for installation on multi-mission surface combatant vessels of domestic and international cus...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has chosen Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Atom Computing and PsiQuantum to demonstrate concepts for designing quantum machines. The three companies were selected for the initial phase of the Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing program based on their proposed novel approaches to building ...
Michael Garson, general counsel at SOS International, has been promoted to take on the additional role of chief legal officer at the Reston, Virginia-based technology and services integrator. SOSi CEO and previous Wash100 awardee Julian Setian said in a statement released Tuesday the move reflects the expansion of the company’s ...
