Raytheon has awarded CPI Aerostructures a potential $2.7 million contract to produce air management system components for the former company’s jammer pods. CPI Aero said Tuesday it will manufacture AMS door and duct assemblies through 2018 in support of the engineering and manufacturing development phase of Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer Increment 1 Pod program with the […] More

Raytheon has awarded an estimated $4 million contract to CPI Aerostructures to supply structural pod housings for tests and airworthiness certification activities on Raytheon’s new electronic warfare jammer pods. CPI Aero said Friday it will provide the jammer pod structures through 2018 to aid the engineering and manufacturing development phase of Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer program with the U.S. Navy. Raytheon secured […] More

Communications & Power Industries has landed a potential $13 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the first phase of a program to invest in the development of new approaches to make vacuum electronics. CPI said Tuesday its Microwave Power Products division has secured an initial $5.8 million investment to support the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office’s High Power […] More

Northrop Grumman has awarded CPI Aerostructures a potential $30 million contract to supply structural kits and related components for integration with the outer wing panels of Northrop-built E-2D Advanced Hawkeye planes. The contract also covers supply chain management, parts source selection and manufacturing engineering support services for Northrop, CPI Aerostructures said Thursday. Northrop will build four […] More

A Communications & Power Industries division has received a five-year, $7.6 million contract to build structural enclosures for the U.S. Navy‘s airborne electronic warfare system. Radant Technologies will continue to provide EW radomes and related support services to the military branch through 2020, CPI said Monday. The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency‘s aviation arm awarded the […] More

Northrop Grumman has awarded CPI Aerostructures a potential $6.75 million subcontract to provide pod structural housings in support of Northrop’s contract with the U.S. Navy for production of the Airborne Laser Mine Detection System. CPI Aero said Tuesday it will begin delivery of the ALMDS pod structural housings early next year and extend through 2021, if all options are exercised. The company […] More

Northrop Grumman has ordered $86.1 million in outer wing panel kits from CPI Aerostructures for Northrop-built Hawkeye and Greyhound aircraft. Northrop will use the kits to build wings for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and the C-2A Greyhound planes under a contract the company holds with the U.S. Navy, CPI said Monday. Twenty-five E-2D Hawkeyes are due to the Navy by […] More

CPI Aerostructures Inc., today announced that Terry Stinson will be brought onto CPI’s Board of Directors to serve a three-year term. With over 45 years of leadership in the aerospace and defense industry under his belt, Stinson has played a number of executive roles with companies including AAR Corp., Textron Aerospace, Triumph Group Inc., and his […] More

Douglas J. McCrosson has been appointed as the new president and chief executive officer of CPI Aerostructures Inc., effective March 6. McCrosson, who was also appointed to the company’s board of directors, will replace Edward J. Fred who resigned for personal reasons, the company announced Thursday. Since joining CPI Aeros in 2003, McCrosson has served […] More

Anduril Industries introduced a new line of imaging and targeting sensors designed for autonomous air vehicles and other airborne combat applications. The company on Thursday launched its Iris family of sensors, which features its proprietary Computational Pixel Imager technology.

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Evercore, a New York-based global independent investment banking advisory firm, has released a monthly update highlighting previous and ongoing transactions it has supported in the aerospace, defense and government services markets. According to the report, a copy of which was received by Executive Mosaic, Evercore advised several aerospace and defense clients on mergers and acquisitions, including Aerojet Rocketdyne on its $4.7 billion sale to L3Harris Technologies.

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CGI Federal has concluded a real-time pilot set in a planetary-scale Metaverse space with the U.S. Marine Corps. To conduct the pilot, CGI and partner organizations Microsoft and Battle Road Digital incorporated the Marine Corps Platform Integration Center logistics and asset management systems with digital twins, the company announced from Fairfax, Virginia on Friday.

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