GovConWire's Government Contracting News 12/19/2022

Boston-based Advent International has agreed to purchase Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) in an all-cash transaction worth approximately $6.4 billion, including debt, that will take the satellite imagery contractor private, the two companies said Friday. The $53-a-share price of the deal is a premium of 129 percent to Maxar’s Thursday closing of $23.10 and both parties

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has agreed to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) for approximately $4.7 billion in cash, or $58 per share, in a transaction that will allow the aerospace and defense contractor to further advance innovation and continue to deliver missile defense systems, hypersonics and other capabilities to the Department of Defense. Melbourne, Florida-based

The U.S. Navy has awarded eight companies positions on a potential 10-year, $4.1 billion follow-on contract to provide production units, software, laboratory equipment, spares and system components for surface, shore and submarine platforms in support of the service branch’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program. CANES is the Navy’s program of record that seeks

A joint venture between the Greenlandic unit of Vectrus and construction company Permagreen has won a potential 12-year, $3.95 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to operate and maintain the Thule Air Base in Greenland. Detachment 1 of USAF’s 21st Contracting Squadron in Copenhagen, Denmark, received four proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and will

Aeyon will provide NASA with financial management consulting services in support of financial operation consolidation efforts at seven of its ten centers during a contracting period of up to eight years. Work is under a potential $516.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract NASA awarded to MM Technologies, a joint venture between Aeyon company Manufacturing Technical Solutions and

Thirty veterans of the government, industry and academia to serve on a federal advisory committee that offers strategic and policy recommendations to the National Space Council. Lester Lyles, a retired U.S. Air Force general and an independent consultant, was selected to chair the NSpC Users Advisory Group, the White House said Friday. Vice President Kamala

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a $334 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the development of a larger class air-breathing hypersonic system that will employ a standardized payload interface to carry out multiple missions. A Leidos-led team will aim to design a vehicle powered by a scramjet engine and capable of traveling at a speed above

John Eubank, a cyber defense executive and GovCon industry veteran, has joined the government arm of BlueVoyant as chief revenue officer. He will lead efforts to drive strategic growth and bring BlueVoyant Government Solutions’ supply chain risk management platform to federal agency clients, the company said Friday. Arun Sankaran, CEO at BlueVoyant Government Solutions, said

Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems business has received a $302.2 million undefinitized contract action to produce, deliver and engineer Mark 48 heavyweight submarine-launched torpedoes for the U.S. and Australian navies. Sixty-one percent of contract purchases are for the U.S. Navy and the remaining 39 percent are for Australia, the Department of Defense

Darby LaJoye, former acting administrator at the Transportation Security Administration, has been named vice president and strategic account executive for the Department of Homeland Security at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS). He will lead efforts to grow the company’s DHS footprint and support organic growth initiatives in his new position, Leidos said Friday. Prior to this appointment,