Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has agreed to acquire Alpharetta, Ga.-based large area display technology developer American Panel Corp. for approximately $100M in a push to expand its avionics capabilities and C4I business....
Linda Foster, director of Advanced Program Development Innovation for Mission Solutions & Space for Lockheed Martin, will be featured as an expert panelist during for Potomac Officers Club’s 6th Annual Intel Summit on July 31st. She will be joined by Dr. Andrew Jenkins of Maxar Technologies and Alexander Miller of the U.S. Army. ...
Mark Patzschke, a 25-year program and project management leader, has been named vice president of corporate growth for Apprio's federal health practice....
A new McAleese & Associates report says Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) reported $13.5B in new awards during the second quarter of 2019 with a total backlog of $63B and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.6x....
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has moved the health records of 23.5M military retirees to a Cerner-operated (Nasdaq: CERN) data center for processing this summer in preparation for the implementation of an interoperable electronic health record system across VA and the Department of Defense....
Global consultancy firm Duff & Phelps has hired investment banking professionals Victor Caruso and Peter Bilden as managing directors in support of efforts to grow the company’s mergers and acquisitions advisory practice focused on aerospace defense and government services....
SpaceX conducted a free flight of its Starhopper prototype launch vehicle following a brief attempt a day earlier at the company’s south Texas-based facility, SpaceNews reported Friday....
Ryan Bissett, a more than two-decade information technology industry veteran, has joined ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) as program director for the firm’s homeland security division, G2Xchange ETC reported Friday....
A new McAleese & Associates report says Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business reported $6.6B in sales for the second quarter of 2019, showing an 8 percent increase from the same period last year....
The Senate confirmed Mark Esper on Thursday to be the next U.S. Defense Secretary to end the Pentagon™s longest period without a Senate approved leader in office. The 2019 Wash100 Award winner was confirmed by a 90 to 8 vote in the Senate to officially succeed Jim Mattis in the role. Another big story of...
