GovernmentCIO, a provider of technology and digital solutions to the federal health information technology (IT) services market last Thursday said it agreed to acquire Salient CGGT (SCRGT) in a deal that will diversify the company’s customer base and create a $700 million company. GovCIO, which ...

Norway and Germany announced an agreement on July 8 to jointly procure new submarines and Naval Strike Missiles (NSMs), seeking lower costs and allowing for longer term cooperation between both countries’ militaries. The deal covers six new Thyssenkrupp 212 Common Design (CD)-class ...

Boeing [BA] on Thursday said its defense business in the United Kingdom received a five-year, $321.6 million contract from the Ministry of Defence to provide the Royal Air Force with support for its fleet of P-8 Poseidon aircraft and aircrew training. The RAF is purchasing nine Boeing P-8s, five of ...

The private equity firm Chumash Capital Investments last Friday acquired Capco, LLC, a small defense contractor with expertise in energetics, light weapons, and electromechanical devices. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Capco, which is based in Colorado, has more than 300 employees, including ...

The U.S. Air Force on July 7 awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a contract that could be worth nearly $3.9 billion for ground subsystems support for the Boeing [BA] Minuteman III ICBMs until 2039. Northrop Grumman was the incumbent, as the company had won a $963 million contract for such support in ...

The United Kingdom awarded MBDA and Eurosam $690 million in multiyear contracts to increase the Royal Navy’s Daring-class Type 45 destroyers missile capacity by 50 percent, the government announced July 6. MBDA is set to integrate the Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAMM) program, also known as ...