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...
Deep Water Point has closed its acquisition of management consulting firm Wolf Den Associates and changed its name to Deep Water Point & Associates as part of a rebranding effort. The new corporate name reflects the combination of two companies into a single entity focused on delivering a suite of management consulting services to federal...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has agreed to acquire IPKeys Power Partners for approximately $43 million as part of efforts to expand its intellectual property portfolio and footprint in grid modernization and cyber resiliency markets. IPKeys is a Tinton Falls, New Jersey-based company founded in 2014 and provides enterprise software platforms designed to deli...
Nicki Scolaro Bland, former contract management professional at Leonardo DRS and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), was appointed as vice president of contracts administration at Peraton, according to a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. Bland most recently served as senior director of contracts and compliance at Leonardo’s U.S. subsidiary, where she led effort...
The U.S. Navy has awarded seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $2.5 billion contract to design and construct facilities in Guam and other areas of operations of the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific. NAVFAC Pacific received nine proposals for the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contra...
Aircraft components maker TransDigm Group (NYSE: TDG) has agreed to acquire Calspan, a technology development and testing services provider headquartered in Buffalo, New York. Cleveland-headquartered TransDigm said it expects to use cash on hand to finance the acquisition and close the transaction during its 2023 fiscal year. Calspan has approximate...
Kathleen Featheringham, a nearly two-decade veteran of Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has joined Maximus (NYSE: MMS) as vice president of artificial intelligence for federal technology consulting services, according to a LinkedIn post published Tuesday. She previously led Booz Allen’s AI practice as a director and helped the government consu...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) ordnance and tactical systems business will produce large-caliber metal and mortar projectiles for the U.S. Army under a $1.48 billion contract modification. The award to carry out shell manufacturing work has a projected completion date of July 30, 2029, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. General Dynamics inh...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer at Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm, said multicloud environments enable government agencies to broaden their technology options and select the best cloud platform to meet their mission requirements. Payne wrote that multicloud adoption begins with the implementation of a strategy that looks at factors t...
