Aegis Aerospace Closes Strategic Acquisition

HOUSTON – Aegis Aerospace, Inc. announced today that it has acquired key assets of ProXopS LLC, an engineering services company based in Houston, Texas.

The acquired assets include subcontracts with Jacobs (NYSE:J) under its Consolidated Operations, Management, Engineering & Test (COMET) contract at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida and its JSC Engineering, Technology, and Science (JETS) II contract at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas.

This acquisition expands Aegis Aerospace’s capabilities in Florida, where it holds prime contracts with NASA to perform the independent verification and validation (IV&V) for the deep space (lunar) logistics project, and to integrate and operate biological experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). Aegis Aerospace is also a prime contractor and subcontractor at JSC, where its work includes commercial space testing services, payload development, integration & operations, and astronaut-related health and human performance research.

Stephanie Muñiz Murphy, Aegis Aerospace’s Founder & CEO, said, “Our company and Jacobs have a long and successful relationship working together, and we look forward to supporting Jacobs and NASA with these very important contracts. This acquisition is part of our strategic growth initiative to build-out a full-service portfolio of government and commercial space and defense offerings, including commercial products and services in Earth orbit and on the Moon. We are committed to NASA’s vision of long-term space exploration, including a permanent human presence and commercial economic activity in Earth orbit, on the Moon, and on Mars.”