Ball Corp. (NYSE: BALL) has begun exploring potential buyers of its estimated $5 billion aerospace business through an auction process, Reuters reported Friday. The aerospace unit constituted 13 percent of the Westminster, Colorado-based company’s 2022 revenue and has drawn interest from Textron (NYSE: TXT), BAE Systems and other defense compa...
Julia MacDonough, a 25-year military and civil space veteran, has joined Draper as vice president and general manager of space systems. She will lead strategy execution efforts meant to drive growth in one of Draper’s key business areas, the nonprofit research and development company Wednesday. Her career began in the U.S. Air Force, where she...
Suzanne Jones, formerly a senior director at BAE Systems, has been named vice president of business winning at nonprofit engineering innovation company Draper. She will lead Draper’s capture and proposal process restructuring efforts and brings 21 years of experience to her new position, the organization said Wednesday. Jones most recently ser...
BAE Systems and four other companies will compete for waterborne surface shaft repair projects under a U.S. Navy contract worth $162 million over five years. The service branch officially awarded six positions on the multiple-award contract vehicle to include BAE’s ship repair businesses in Virginia and California, according to a Department of...
BAE Systems has received a $463.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to maintain 155 mm lightweight towed howitzers for domestic and foreign military customers. The firm-fixed-price award covers the provision of catalog parts and manpower services to support the life cycle sustainment of the U.S. and Australian M777A2 howitzer fleet and Canada̵...
Craig Brower, a three-decade intelligence and defense sector veteran, has returned to BAE Systems as senior vice president of U.S. sales for the company’s Bohemia Interactive Simulations subsidiary. The appointment comes one year after BAE acquired BISim for approximately $200 million. “BISim specializes in training and simulation software f...
BAE Systems will expand its research and development work on precision guided munition technology under a $72.5 million contract from the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center. R&D services under the three-year contract center on the XM1155-SC projectile as part of the branch’s long-range precision fire...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded 13 companies positions on a potential $900 million contract for core mission operations support services. NGA disclosed the winning vendors on the GEOINT Enterprise Operations Service and Solutions Program with Industry indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through an award notice po...
Mara Motherway, former senior vice president of government and customer relations at Peraton, has joined defense technology maker Epirus as chief growth officer. She will oversee corporate campaigns, marketing, business development, communications and government relations in her new role, Epirus said Thursday. While at Peraton, Motherway led the gov...
BAE Systems has accepted from Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and Qorvo (Nasdaq: QRVO) the first set of multichip prototypes developed under the Department of Defense’s State-of-the-art Heterogeneous Integrated Packaging program. Intel delivered its multichip package for SHIP’s digital segment and Qorvo handed over to BAE its multichip module for the initi...
