Cubic Corporation announced on Wednesday it has accepted a proposal from Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital to increase the price per share of their pending acquisition of Cubic to $75.00 per share in cash. By accepting the proposal, Cubic has entered into an amended agreement with Veritas and Evergreen. The all-cash transaction will be valued at approximately $3 billion.
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Govini, Textron & Cubic Execs Join National Defense University Foundation’s Board
Frank Muth and John Roberti, former military officers who are now private sector executives, have been named independent members of the National Defense University Foundation's board of directors. Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of defense company Govini and a former Department of Defense staffer, also joined the board with Muth and Roberti, NDU Foundation said Tuesday.
Read More »DOD Taps Cubic Subsidiary to Develop Compact 5G Transceiver; Martin Amen Quoted
A Cubic company has received a three-year contract worth approximately $10 million to help the Department of Defense develop a lightweight and compact dual-band transceiver for military 5G networks. Cubic Nuvotronics, which falls under the mission and performance solutions segment, secured the award through the National Spectrum Consortium and will build a low size, weight and power 5G wireless network communications transceiver to support the DOD's “5G to Next G“ effort, Cubic said Wednesday.
Read More »Army Taps Cubic Nuvotronics to Make Surrogate Payload for Satcoms
Nuvotronics, a business within Cubic's mission and performance solutions segment, has received a contract from the U.S. Army to produce a surrogate payload that could substitute for a satellite communication in satcom-denied scenarios. The contractor said Tuesday it will develop a high-altitude balloon payload that could enable contingency communications and support Wideband Global Satellites surrogate operations during electronic or kinetic attacks.
Read More »Cubic to Produce Additional F-35 Training Systems Under Lockheed Contract; Mike Knowles Quoted
Lockheed Martin has ordered more than 150 training subsystems for the F-35 Lightning II Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation system from Cubic's mission and performance solutions business under a $32 million contract between the two companies.
Read More »Veritas Capital, Evergreen Announce $2.8B Acquisition of Cubic; Ramzi Musallam Quoted
Cubic Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement with an affiliate of Veritas Capital, under which Veritas and Evergreen Coast Capital, an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, will acquire Cubic for $70.00 per share in cash. The all-cash transaction is worth approximately $2.8 billion, including the assumption of debt.
Read More »Cubic Launches Virtual Fare Payment App on Android for LA Commuters
Cubic's transportation systems business has released a mobile application designed to allow contactless fare payments for commuters in Los Angeles County in California. Commuters may now use the TAP application on the Android operating system to pay fares virtually by holding their mobile devices near TAP validators within trains and buses.
Read More »Cubic Enables Push-to-Talk Interoperability Between Land Mobile Radio, LTE Networks; Mike Barthlow Quoted
Cubic's mission and performance solutions business has implemented a FirstNet-ready push-to-talk capability into its Vocality radio internet protocol and M3-SE-MFGW gateways to support interoperability between LTE and land mobile radio networks.
Read More »USAF Demos Cubic-Made Mission Analysis Software at Checkered Flag Exercise; Jonas Furukrona Quoted
Tyndall Air Force Base has hosted a demonstration of a Cubic-made software suite designed to analyze kinetic and non-kinetic effects during training exercises. Cubic said Wednesday its Simplified, Planning, Execution, Analysis, Reconstruction or SPEAR suite facilitated user experience across more than 75 aircraft at the Checkered Flag 21-1 exercise.
Read More »Cubic Subsidiary to Increase Microelectronic Package Manufacturing Capacity; Martin Amen Quoted
Cubic's Nuvotronics subsidiary plans to add a 14-inch substrate carrier line within its manufacturing facility in Durham, North Carolina, in anticipation of increased demand for millimeter-wave technology across the defense, space and commercial sectors.
Read More »Cubic Receives Navy Training Platform Maturation Task Order
Cubic's mission and performance solutions business has received an $8.5M task order to mature core architectures of a training system designed for the U.S. Navy's F/A-18 and EA-18G aircraft programs.
Read More »Army Selects Cubic for Software-Based Radio Prototyping; Mike Knowles Quoted
Cubic has received a $7.5M contract to build and demonstrate a prototype software-defined radio intended to support coordination of unmanned aircraft systems in flight.
Read More »Cubic Subsidiary to Provide NGA Data Mgmt Software; Mike Knowles Quoted
Cubic's PIXIA subsidiary will continue to provide its software platforms for data management and dissemination to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency after NGA exercised the second option year under a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.
Read More »Cubic Subsidiary Gets DoD Microelectronic Tech Supplier Accreditation; Mike Knowles Quoted
The Defense Microelectronics Activity has certified Cubic's Nuvotronics subsidiary as a supplier of integrated circuits to the Department of Defense for military application through the agency's Trusted Access Program Office.
Read More »Mike Knowles on Cubic’s Newly Consolidated Defense Segment
Cubic combined into a single business structure its mission solutions and global defense segments in August and Mike Knowles, president of the newly formed Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions segment, said he expects the consolidated defense business to improve operational efficiency and offer more integrated platforms to customers, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.
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