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Redwire Acquires Spacecraft Engineering Firm Oakman Aerospace

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

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Redwire Acquires Spacecraft Engineering Firm Oakman Aerospace

Maureen O'Brien, co-founder and CEO of Oakman Aerospace. Photo: Redwire

Redwire on Tuesday said it has made another acquisition to further build out its space solutions platform, adding Oakman Aerospace, Inc., a provider of digital engineering capabilities for spacecraft design and development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Oakman Aerospace adds a critical capability in digital engineering that will significantly enhance our space infrastructure solutions,” Peter Cannito, chairman and CEO of Redwire, said in a statement. “Their modular open systems architecture design and development approach and proprietary commercial off-the-shelf…

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