PAE (Nasdaq: PAE) and Amentum are expected to carry on with their planned merger after the Falls Church, Virginia-based defense and government services contractor did not secure an alternative acquisition offer during the go-shop period that expired Monday. Germantown, Maryland-based Amentum agreed to buy PAE in an all-cash deal worth approximately ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential 10-year, $3.19 billion contract from NASA to produce and operate solid rocket boosters for the Space Launch System in support of the Artemis program. The contract covers the production of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension boosters for Artemis IX and flight sets for Artemis IV through...
Joey Hoskins, most recently the director of business development at BWX Technologies (NYSE: BWXT), has been elevated to a vice president position. He succeeds Mark Barth, who was appointed business manager for a BWXT-led joint venture that won the Department of Energy’s $21 billion Savannah River Site Integrated Mission Completion Contract in ...
Information technology provider CDW (Nasdaq: CDW) has closed its approximately $2.5 billion cash purchase of Sirius Computer Solutions from private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. CDW said Thursday it expects the transaction to help grow the company’s IT portfolio for the government and business enterprise sectors in the areas of...
BAE Systems will continue to supply military-code GPS receiver technology to the Department of Defense and its international allies under a $316 award from the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA exercised an option on a multiyear contract awarded to the company’s U.S. subsidiary in May to procure Modernized GPS User Equipment Increment 1 Common GPS...
Eddie Morris, a nearly 25-year veteran of NCI Information Systems, has been named vice president of strategic pricing and profitability at Arlington, Virginia-based technology services provider Excella. He will be responsible for ensuring that Excella’s artificial intelligence and agile transformation service offerings are appropriate and alig...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) will continue to provide a data management and decision support platform to Space Systems Command under a $43 million contract extension. The company said Thursday its Warp Core technology supports situational awareness and decision-making efforts at U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Northern Comm...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a solicitation for a 10-year recompete contract for professional, technical and scientific services focused on the satellite domain. The ProTech 2.0 Satellite Domain is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract set aside for small businesses and has a base term...
Capgemini has closed its stock purchase of Rockville, Maryland-based information technology and cybersecurity services provider VariQ. The transaction was first announced in September and Capgemini said Wednesday that VariQ will operate under the French IT and consulting firm’s division that works with federal agencies in the U.S. Doug Lane, C...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 2, 2021 — MetTel and Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will collaborate on the delivery of digital transformation services to U.S. government clients, with the latter company already working on updating a federal agency customer’s aging telecommunications services into an SD-WAN and IP voice archit...
