Amela Wilson, former vice president of sensor and fire control solutions at Elbit Systems of America (Nasdaq: ESLT), has been named vice president and general manager of the surveillance division within joined FLIR Systems‘s (Nasdaq: FLIR) government and defense business. Wilson will be based in Washington, D.C., and responsible for defining t...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has secured a potential $91.2M contract to provide systems engineering support for the U.S. Navy‘s voice systems. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also includes lifecycle sustainment and programmatic support services and has a five-year base p...
A new PwC report says the total value of mergers and acquisitions in the global aerospace and defense industry was $5.9B in the third quarter of 2018, down 49 percent from the same period last year. PwC said the number of M&A deals in the A&D sector plummeted 18 percent to 89 transactions in Q3 2018 and...
Three small businesses have been awarded spots on a potential five-year contract to support analysis and test engineering work on the U.S. Navy™s command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. Contractors will vie for task orders to research, develop and test C5ISR platforms as well as...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 31, 2018 ” Systems Planning and Analysis unveiled earlier this month that Pamela Melroy, a former Space Shuttle commander at NASA and retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined the company’s board of directors, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 21. “Colonel Melroy brings unique and extensive experie...
MAG Aerospace has bought Lexington Park, Md.-based unmanned aviation system and program development services contractor Ausley Associates for an undisclosed sum in a move to expand work with the U.S. Navy. MAG said Friday it will absorb more than 200 logistics, program management and systems engineering professionals as part...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 24, 2018 ” SSL will help Zin Technologies build and test a flight system component that NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed for the future Psyche mission, which aims to study its namesake metallic asteroid in order to understand the Earth’s formation, ExecutiveBiz reported Aug. 10. The Maxar...
The U.S. Navy has selected four contractors to provide emerging positioning, navigation and timing technologies to power command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance applications. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center selected Riverside Engineering; Coherent Technical Services; Whitney, Br...
CAE™s (NYSE: CAE) U.S. arm has purchased Alpha-Omega Change Engineering for about $29 million as part of efforts to expand work in U.S. security programs and build up its capabilities in training systems integration. œAOCE brings existing contracts as well as past performance in unmanned systems, aircrew training and courseware development...
L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has purchased Columbia, Md.-based aerospace engineering and space situational awareness services provider Applied Defense Solutions for approximately $50 million in a move to build up its space mission capabilities. L3 said Monday it will operate the newly acquired firm as L3 ADS to provide space exploratio...
