Business/Financial

SRA International yesterday said it has agreed to acquire the National Security Consulting business of the consulting and technology solutions firm MorganFranklin, giving it a position on the key communications […]

Raytheon [RTN] yesterday said its Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor (JLENS) recently simultaneously detected and tracked tracked double-digit swarming boats, hundreds of cars and trucks, non-swarming […]

France’s Safran Group yesterday said it has acquired the remaining stake in the explosives detection company Morpho Detection Inc. (MDI), that it did not already own, from General Electric [GE] […]

CyPhy Works flew into view yesterday unveiling two revolutionary small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs): Extreme Access System for Entry (EASE) and Persistent aerial Reconnaissance and Communications (PARC). CyPhy Works was […]

GeoEye (GEOY) said yesterday its shareholders approved the proposal to combine with DigitalGlobe [DGI]. At a special meeting of GeoEye shareholders yesterday, 98.3-percent of the shares voting at the meeting […]

General Dynamics [GD] Armament and Technical Products and Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., yesterday said they are offering the Samson line of Remote Weapons Stations (RWS) to the U.S. […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said it successfully demonstrated a portable, ground-based military laser called the Area Defense Anti-Munitions (ADAM) system in a series of tests against representative airborne targets. The company […]

Carlisle Companies Inc. [CSL] yesterday said it has agreed to acquire the Thermax and Raydex wire and cable businesses from Belden Inc. [BDC], expanding its capabilities and technology in interconnect […]

General Dynamics [GD] Global Imaging Technologies yesterday said it has delivered the 1,000th precision-machined beryllium sensor housing to Finmeccanica’s DRS Technologies that integrates the sensor housings into the Mast Mounted […]

General Dynamics [GD] C4Systems yesterday said that, effective Jan. 1, Sandra Wheeler will become vice president of Tactical Networks. Wheeler will lead the teams responsible for the continuous development and fielding […]