Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has purchased Pentek for approximately $65 million as part of efforts to expand software-based radio, radio frequency system-on-chip and data recorder offerings. “The acquisition of Pentek is an excellent fit for our market and low-risk content expansion strategy,” Mark Aslett, president and CEO of Mercury and a 20...
Brian Blanchette, former director of technical and design engineering at Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), was appointed as vice president of quality and engineering at HII’s Pascagoula, Mississippi-based naval shipbuilding arm. The company said Thursday Blanchette will succeed Dave Belanger, who is re...
Belcan, a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners, has bought service-disabled veteran-owned professional services contractor VICTOR42 for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand work with government and defense customers. Washington, D.C.-based VICTOR42 offers special operations and information technology support to government clients such as th...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Millennium Space Systems have received separate contracts to create digital models of sensor technology for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning satellite constellation. The Missile Track Custody Prototype contracts call for the two companies to perform modeling work as part of the Next Generation...
IAP Worldwide Services will provide operating support services to a U.S. Navy installation located in Guam under a potential $171.8 million contract that includes a base value of $36.6 million Work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command will include facility maintenance, ground la...
CAE‘s health care arm has appointed four executives to fill sales leadership roles across its military and government, e-commerce, strategic and core business segments. Heidi Wood, president of CAE Healthcare, said in a statement published Thursday the vice president appointments are aimed at supporting the company’s market expansion and...
Charles Onstott, a nearly three-decade veteran of Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has joined Calibre Systems as vice president and chief technology officer. He will advance innovation and growth initiatives through the development and application of enterprise information technology platforms and help identify opportunities fo...
A Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $110 million contract to provide medical exams to current and prospective FBI staff. QTC Medical Services will form and oversee a network of private health providers to conduct fit for duty evaluations and vaccinations as part of the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quan...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and General Motors (NYSE: GM) have partnered to construct a lunar rover to enable astronauts to explore the moon’s surface in support of NASA’s Artemis program. “Surface mobility is critical to enable and sustain long-term exploration of the lunar surface,” Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed’...
Battelle, Clinical Enterprise and PerkinElmer Health Sciences have received contracts worth potentially $650 million combined to help the U.S. government ramp up COVID-19 testing efforts nationwide. The Department of Defense said Wednesday it issued the awards under a partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services to deploy test kits a...
