24 février 2021 | International, Naval

Leidos Moves to Buy Gibbs & Cox in $380M Deal - USNI News

Defense contractor Leidos is making a bid to buy the almost hundred-year-old ship design firm Gibbs & Cox in a $380 million deal, the company announced in a Tuesday earnings call. The cash deal, expected to close in the second quarter of 2021, would position Leidos to compete in the emerging unmanned naval systems market …

https://news.usni.org/2021/02/23/leidos-moves-to-buy-gibbs-cox-in-380m-deal

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