A new report by Bluestone Capital Partners indicates an improving market performance for the defense industry in 2015 after almost five years of being outperformed by the aerospace industry. The company said that businesses in the aerospace and defense sector with significant defense exposure have achieved a median trading multiple of at least 10-times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization this year […] More

A new Research and Markets report has forecast the U.S. and China will be the biggest spenders when it comes to electronic warfare over the next two years. The research firm said Monday it also found that the number of electronic attacks grew during the past 12 months and that jamming devices are commonly used […] More

A new PwC report on the mergers and acquisitions in aerospace-and-defense industry says deal activities increased in 2014 compared to 2013 and the number of transactions worth at least $1 billion doubled from the prior year. The firm’s Mission Control report, authored by PwC Global A&D Leader Guillaume Rochard and U.S. A&D Leader Chuck Marx, says the total deal value reached $22.3 billion in 2014, up from the $14.3 […] More

Boeing has appointed Bryan Scott to oversee the company’s business in San Antonio and succeed Mike Emmelhainz as the latter returns to Oklahoma City to lead operations ahead of Steve Goo’s retirement. The company said Wednesday Scott and Emmelhainz will assume their new roles at the end of January and report to Scott Strode, vice president and general manager of […] More

A new report by Visiongain indicates a slowdown in defense spending on military land vehicle electronics over the next year due to the end of ground troop deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. The market will stall in North America and most of Europe, but Visiongain said Tuesday that modernization programs in Australia and France will help the market reach […] More

The global market for C4ISR – short for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — is forecast to become a $133 billion industry by 2020, new research from ReportsnReports says. The market analysts said Monday that it expects the segment, currently valued at $102 billion, to have a compound annual growth rate of 4.52 percent […] More

Strategic Defence Intelligence expects the growing demand for ISR systems and military technology advancements to fuel growth of the electronic warfare technology market over the next 10 years. The global EW systems market is forecast to achieve a 2.68 percent compound annual growth rate to be $13.2 billion in value by 2024, Strategic Defense Intelligence […] More

John Blecher serves as senior vice president of contracts at DynCorp International. Prior to DynCorp, he served VP and general manager of programs in Afghanistan and in Europe for Exelis and managed contracts to support more than 400 Afghan army and police sites. He also oversaw LOGCAP business in Afghanistan through Fluor and work for the U.S. Army in […] More

Michael Arthur, a thirty-year British government veteran, will join Boeing Co. as president of the company’s U.K. and Ireland business. He will succeed Roger Bone, who will retire in September, Boeing said Wednesday. “(Arthur) will continue to build our presence and collaboration with our partners, customers, employees and communities across the U.K.,” said Shep Hill, president of […] More

A DigitalGlobe commercial Earth-observing satellite was sent into space Wednesday aboard an Atlas V rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. WorldView-3 is built to capture images at a multispectral resolution of 0.31 meters and has multiple shortwave infrared bands that will work to spot objects in the presence of fog, smoke, dust and […] More

A MicroMarket Monitor report forecasts the North American security and surveillance radar market to be worth up to $2.03 billion in 2019, a compound annual growth rate of 4.64 percent over the next five years. The market research firm said Sunday that the region would keep its status as the top spender on security and surveillance radar systems, […] More

RF Controls LLC announced recently it received a contract from Lockheed Martin to install an antenna system to track assets for Lockheed’s Lightning II program. The $400,000 contract, according to RF Control officials, is one of many task orders to come. RF Controls commercializes on its “smart antenna” systems that possess a spread of wireless communications […] More