Nine companies have won spots on a potential eight-year, $249M contract to provide technical support services for the U.S. Navy’s networks and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms....
Science Systems and Applications Inc. has secured a potential five-year, $425M contract to support scientific research activities within a Goddard Space Flight Center subdivision focused on hydrosphere, biosphere and geophysics. SSAI will work with the Goddard HBG subdivision toward applying observations and technology platforms to various areas of ...
Comtech Telecommunications (Nasdaq: CMTL) has agreed to buy Gilat Satellite Networks (Nasdaq: GILT) for $10.25 per share or approximately $532.5M in cash and stock. “The acquisition better positions Comtech to take advantage of key marketplace trends, particularly the growing demand for satellite connectivity and the enormous long-term opportunit...
Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) and Amazon Web Services have officially launched a satellite-enabled cloud computing service offering for connected device users worldwide. "CloudConnect illustrates how the Iridium network can connect, monitor and control assets virtually anywhere on the planet," said Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium and ...
Craig Ackerman, who previously served as principal of the federal practice at management consulting and advisroy firm Chazey Partners, has joined Mitre as vice president of operations and transformation, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Wednesday....
Raytheon has developed and tested a prototype system for the U.S. Air Force to process and manage huge amounts of satellite data as part of a $197M missile warning architecture modernization contract....
A BAE Systems research and development team has been selected to build mixed-mode signal processing technology under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program to deploy next-generation radio frequency platforms and drive U.S.-based defense electronics manufacturing efforts....
Stephen Steinour, president and CEO of bank holding company Huntington Bancshares, has joined the board of directors of Battelle....
Greg Hayes, chairman and CEO of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), said UTC hopes to close its potential $120B merger with Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) by early April and has begun planning for the integration of the two companies, the Hartford Business Journal reported Tuesday....
The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies positions on a potential five-year, $851M contract to modernize, sustain and repair non-nuclear surface vessels undergoing scheduled maintenance operations in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii....
