Broadcom‘s (Nasdaq: AVGO) bid to purchase VMware (NYSE: VMW) via an approximately $61 billion cash-and-stock transaction has secured the approval of stockholders at the cloud and virtualization technology vendor. VMware’s shareholders voted in favor of the acquisition at a special meeting held Friday, the company said. The vote occurred five...
Bulgaria is looking to acquire eight additional F-16 Block 70 fighter jets from the U.S. to expand on its initial eight-aircraft order and avail ammunition and training support services, Bulgarian News Agency reported Thursday. An investment expenditure draft previously adopted by the Balkan nation’s budget and finance committee details a plan...
Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) expects the first two of its six WorldView Legion satellites to arrive at their launch site in December and deploy to space the following month, Maxar President and CEO Dan Jablonsky said in the company’s third quarter earnings call. “The first two are essentially hardware ready, ready to ship downrange, waiti...
Excella has secured a position on a potential 10-year, $112 million blanket purchase agreement to offer services for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to modernize the agency’s information environment and improve its ability to use external and internal data assets. The company said Thursday the first two call orders under the Data Supp...
The U.S. Navy has issued a request for proposals for a potential three-year, $230 million contract to provide maintenance, repair, overhaul and logistics services for the military branch’s Fleet Readiness Center Aviation Support Equipment. The service’s Commander Fleet Readiness Center plans to compete the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity...
Westminster, Colorado-based Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has acquired Wovenware, an artificial intelligence and software development company, for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to expand its AI, 3D data production, software engineering and machine learning capabilities. Wovenware Co-Founders Christian Gonzalez and Carlos Melendez will conti...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has received a pair of contracts worth a combined $120 million to perform data analysis and modeling work to help the U.S. government evaluate spacecraft system acquisition programs. The awards cover the provision of analytic products and systems engineering services to inform procurement decisions for information technology systems,...
Mitre has been selected by the Department of Transportation to operate a prototype virtual application built to help developers test cooperative driving automation systems. The Federal Highway Administration created the Virtual Open Innovation Collaborative Environment for Safety platform for multiple entities to participate simultaneously in synthe...
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) will compete to supply equipment for military construction projects under a Defense Logistics Agency contract worth potentially $1.28 billion over five years. DLA received three responses to a competitive acquisition process for the economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery requirements type contract, the Defense Departm...
NASA has launched an open and full competition for a potential nine-year, $1.93 billion follow-on contract to provide spaceflight mission support services to Johnson Space Center’s Flight Operations Directorate. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov says the next iteration of NASA’s Integrated Mission Operations Contract will include prep...
