GALT Aerospace acquires electronic product maker
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Ross Wilkers
This is GALT's first acquisition with the support of Godspeed Capital and adds a manufacturing facility that is intended to be the centerpiece for tech innovation and transition efforts.
GALT Aerospace has acquired a maker of defense electronics products to push further into the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aspects in military technology development.
North Star Scientific Corp. opened for business in 2001 and builds radio frequency-amplifiers, transmitters, antennas and electronically scanned arrays. NSS designs these products to support missions in command-and-control, electronic sensing, and airborne early warning and control.
By purchasing NSS, GALT is also adding a Oklahoma City-based manufacturing facility that will be a centerpiece for innovation and technology transition efforts. Financial terms of the transaction announced Monday were not disclosed.
This is GALT’s first acquisition with the support of Godspeed Capital Management, which acquired the company in the spring. GALT is prioritizing tech development initiatives in its strategy that focuses on C3ISR – command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
C3ISR is a concept for bringing together data-gathering sensors and communication networks into a single framework for giving military commanders greater awareness of the battlefield and informing their decisions.
NSS describes its customer base as including the Air Force and Navy. The Navy portfolio includes Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Sea Systems Command and the Office of Naval Research.