Federal IT services provider MartinFed has purchased service-disabled, veteran-owned small business Xcel Engineering. David Mathis, president and CEO of MartinFed, said in a statement released Thursday the company made the acquisition to broaden IT and engineering service offerings to the federal, state and local government sectors. “Xcel will mai...
Private investment firm Highlander Partners has acquired DZYNE Technologies, a developer of unmanned aircraft systems for domestic and international defense and government customers, for an undisclosed sum. DZYNE’s drone offering uses proprietary artificial intelligence technology and is equipped with advanced autonomous navigation, full-motio...
Dedrone has purchased Aerial Armor, a Pheonix, Arizona-based developer of drone detection systems, in a deal that would bring together both companies’ technology platforms to help advance counter-drone security. Sterling, Virginia-headquartered Dedrone said Thursday it will retain the Aerial Armor workforce, which includes CEO Russ Haugan and ...
Kathleen Creighton, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, has been named to the board of directors of ManTech. She will bring to the board decades of experience in cybersecurity, information warfare, network operations, information technology and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, ManTech said Wed...
Mark Kavanaugh, former vice president of the defense systems engineering group at KBR’s (NYSE: KBR) Government Solutions business, has been promoted to senior VP, according to his LinkedIn post published Wednesday. The SVP will lead a group of 3,500 specialists in efforts to deliver scientific, engineering and technical services to the D...
Catalina Murillo, formerly a senior vice president within Maximus‘ (NYSE: MMS) global human resources organization, has been appointed chief people officer at Intelligent Waves. She joins IW with nearly three decades of work experience in multiple industries and will oversee the company’s HR strategy in her new position, the Reston, Virg...
Ronald “Chip” Whitford, formerly a vice president of BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), has assumed new roles as senior VP, general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary at the nuclear components supplier. He succeeds Tom McCabe, who will remain with BWXT in special advisory role until his retirement on Aug. 1, the company sa...
The U.S. Coast Guard is soliciting feedback on a draft statement of work as the military branch looks to conduct a recompete of business and logistics management services to its Command, Control, Communication, Computer, Cyber and Intelligence Service Center. USCG said Tuesday in a SAM notice that the follow-on procurement effort will have a five-ye...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has completed its purchase of Link 16, the tactical data link product line of Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT) for about $1.96 billion. L3Harris agreed to buy Viasat’s TDL portfolio in October as part of a strategic effort to meet warfighters’ Joint All-Domain Command and Control requirements. In December, the Melbourne, F...
Adnet Systems will continue to analyze scientific data and support information technology for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland under a $468 million small business set-aside contract. The company will help Goddard personnel manage data and IT operations as well as carry out engineering, science communications, outreach and educati...
