Press Releases

HOUSTON, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Six astronaut candidates with ties to Massachusetts, including three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grads, will be honored as part of the first class of astronaut candidates to graduate under the

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers may have found a way that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope can quickly identify nearby planets that could be promising for our search for life, as well as worlds that are uninhabitable because their oceans have vaporized.

CENTREVILLE, Va., Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Parsons Corporation (NYSE:PSN) has won a position and an initial task order on the $427 million multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity Global Application Research, Development, Engineering and Maintenance (GARDEM) contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The seven-year cost plus fixed fee contra

Chicago, Jan. 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that

NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DLA Piper represented CIRCOR International, Inc., a provider of flow control solutions and other highly engineered products for the industrial, energy, aerospace and defense markets, in the US$172 million sale of its Instrumentation and Sampling business to Crane Co.The Instrumentation and Sampli

LANDOVER, Md., Jan. 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Effective January 1, 2020, AirBoss Defense and Critical Solutions International (CSI) have completed a merger to form a new corporate entity known as AirBoss Defense Group (ADG). This new business has been formed through the spin-off and merger of AirBoss of America Corp.’s AirBoss Defense business and Quebec

CHICAGO, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Mesirow Financial acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Safran S.A. ("Safran"), a global tier-one supplier of systems and equipment to the aviation, defense, and space markets, on the sale of its subsidiary Base2 Solutions ("Base2" or "the Company") to Belcan, LLC ("Belcan"), a portfolio company of AE Industrial Partners,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Deployed National Guardsmen and Reservists now have benefits parity with their active-component counterparts thanks to a bipartisan effort in Congress. The fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes language that provides Guardsmen and Reservists mobilized under authority 12304b

SEATTLE, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Doomsday headlines warn that the age of "killer robots" is upon us, and that new military technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to the annihilation of the human race. In his new, short book

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The F-35 Joint Program Office awarded the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) industry team a $1.9 billion contract to support operations and sustainment of the global F-35 fleet, while improving mission readiness and further reducing costs.

REHOVOT, Israel and LONDON, Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Get SAT, an innovator in small, lightweight satellite communication terminals for airborne, ground, and maritime applications and Inmarsat, a world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, today announced

ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Elon Musk,  SpaceX's Chief Engineer, will  participate in a fireside chat with Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond, Chief of Space Operations, during the Air Force Association's 2020 Air Warfare Symposium, Feb. 26 – 28."We are honored to welcome Mr. Musk, a brilliant entrepreneu

PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Erickson Incorporated, a worldwide leading operator, maintainer, and manufacturer of utility aircraft, is continuing to fight the devastating Australian bushfires into the new year armed with Six Air Crane® helicopters. 

New Orders, Production, and Employment Contracting; Supplier Deliveries Slowing at Faster Rate; Backlog Contracting; Raw Materials Inventories Contracting; Customers' Inventories Too Low; Prices Increasing; Exports and Imports Contracting TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in Decemb

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Jan. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 260 students are expected to attend the 2020 FIRST Robotics kickoff event Jan. 4, starting 8:30 a.m. at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The event, to be held in the Davidson Center for Space