Harris girds for return to M&A arena with eye on smallsat and ground segment deals

摘要

US tactical communications provider Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) yearns to re-enter the acquisitions game after years on the M&A sidelines following a transformational buy. The defence and IT specialist could also piggyback contracting of commercial small satellites onto a military-focused smallsat programme, a spokesperson said. CEO William Brown noted during the company's fiscal Q2 2018 earnings call that it had received funding for a smallsat programme.