🏆CBRE, Air Center score wins; Lockheed 3rd, Bell 4th for 2025 revenues; Taylor Sheridan takes book to the bank.

CBRE in Fort Worth, the only bidder, was awarded a $22,576,570 fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for real estate appraisal services. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of June 4, 2031. 

Burleson-based Air Center Helicopters was awarded an $82.8-million, fixed-price contract to provide Vertical Replenishment services beginning July 25. During extensive periods at sea, it is anticipated the detachment will be primarily assigned to Combat Logistics Force ships of the T-AKE class and used to meet Seventh and Fifth Fleet requirements. The Navy contract contains a one-year base period, with option periods covering 4.5 years.

Boeing ($90B), Airbus ($80B) and Lockheed Martin ($75B) were the top three aviation revenue generators, according to 2025 numbers compiled by Simple Flying. There was a huge drop of approximately $60 billion dollars to No. 4 Textron, the parent company of Bell Helicopter. 

Google agreed to pay SpaceX as much as $30B for cloud compute capacity in a three-year deal, adding value ahead of the Elon Musk-led company's Friday IPO. The compute capacity includes access to 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, CPUs, memory and other related components.

The book "How to Not Die in Prison" by Taylor Sheridan and ex-con Tom Nelson will be released June 23. Sheridan spoke with Woman's World about his favorite book (by a Texas great) and its influences on his writing and film-making. 

Season 3 of television series Lioness, a non-Western thriller from Taylor Sheridan, has an Aug. 2 release date. The core cast, which includes Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, Laysla De Oliveira, Genesis Rodriguez, Michael Kelly, and Morgan Freeman, will return for the new season. 

Canada temporarily has banned livestock imports from Texas after the detection of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite. Under the restrictions, any cattle, horses and other livestock originating from Texas — or that were present in the state within 21 days before crossing — are denied entry into Canada.

The NCAA again denied an appeal from Texas Tech to allow quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play during 2026. Sorsby has been suspended for admittedly gambling on college football games. Still alive is a temporary injunction suit against the NCAA by Sorsby being heard by Senior Judge Ken Curry of Fort Worth. Granting an injunction would mean Curry believes there's validity to the case that Sorsby is bringing against the NCAA, and that it would cause him permanent damage to not play. Denying an injunction would de facto end his college career. 

Modern Aviation broke ground on a two-hangar complex at Fort Worth’s Meacham International Airport with completion targeted for the first quarter of 2027. The development is two 39,200-square-foot hangars with a 4,375 square-foot office. Both hangars are designed to accommodate the largest business jets currently in production.

The Fort Worth office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Cypress, Texas resident Nathan Fuller because of a crypto venture that regulators say brought in about $12.3 million from nearly 150 investors by claiming proprietary artificial intelligence bots were doing the trading. The SEC alleges that millions of dollars were instead funneled to personal spending and Ponzi-like payouts.

With millions of visitors expected in north Texas during the FIFA World Cup, researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington led by Yunyao Li will conduct a field experiment to measure how large crowds, increased traffic and more flights affect the air quality. Li is an assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences and director of the Atmospheric Intelligence & Modeling Lab.

Portillo’s Chicago-style hot dogs has opened inside D-FW International Airport (Terminal B, near Gate B22), and the Board has agreed with multiple local concepts to open soon. Among them are Fort Worth-based Ampersand Coffee, Dallas-Fort Worth favorites Mi Cocina and Whataburger, Fort Worth-inspired Stockyards Bar & Grill / Cowtown Supply Co., north Texas-founded Cookie Society, Mama Moore’s and Audrey’s Popcorn. 

In an effort to help power-up Brazil's taxi and ride-share models, GM is offering value deals with seven vehicles and assistance from Chevrolet Financial Services – a subsidiary of Fort Worth's GM Financial – to expedite credit analysis for interested drivers and streamline the enrollment process.

Fort Worth has the capability to launch a Flock Drone as part of its First Responder program, giving police officers real-time aerial awareness just in time for the FIFA World Cup. The drone puts eyes on a scene immediately after a call comes in, helping officers understand what they are walking into before they arrive.

Fort Worth's Municipal Parking Services launched GoFW.co, an interactive, web-based tool to simplify parking and improve mobility across the most active corridors. The platform gives users up-to-date information for on-street parking availability, city garages and surface lots, EV charging stations, bike docking stations, rideshare zones, and transit schedules for bus and rail lines.

Snippets:

• A new service branch could be joining the U.S. Armed Forces family. What is Cyber Force? 

• Polymarket (prediction) traders are pricing in a 62% chance of a Fed rate hike this year.

Daily digit: 16% = Increase in the S&P 500 across April and May, a two-month surge that’s been matched only four other times since 1950 — and each time, the index was also higher six months later (by a median 17%).

Significant stat: ~6% = Increase in average S&P 500 CEO compensation in 2025 to $17.7 million, while the average employee pay rose ~4.7% to just over $89,700, per Associated Press survey.

Today in history:

• 1966: The NFL and AFL announced a merger that eventually created one league, a shared draft and the championship game that became the Super Bowl.

• 1971: Southwest Airlines’ initial public offering began with 650,000 shares offered at about $11. Adjusted for stock splits, one share today would be about 300 shares, worth roughly $12,476 at Friday’s close, not including dividends.

• 2002: Undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis defeated Mike Tyson by eighth-round knockout in Memphis in one of the most-hyped heavyweight fights of the pay-per-view era.

Announcements:

• Transform 1012: Hires former Fort Worth council woman Kelly Allen Gray as Director of Operations. 

• Texas: Gov. Greg Abbott names Glenn Isbell of Aledo and Jamie Moreno of Fort Worth to his 14-person modernizing manufacturing task force. Isbell is Vice President of Prototyping at Bell Textron and Moreno is a Business Agent for Teamsters Local 767.

• TCU Athletics: Names Greg Robertson associate head coach of the women’s golf program. The baseball team adds pitching coach Thomas Eshelman, hitting coach Danny-David Linahan and former Horned Frog star Bryan Holaday as bench and catching coach.

• Prophet Homes: Hires Jenna Buchanan as Investment Real Estate Agent.

• Veritas Health Services: Hires Molli Turner as Assistant Area Manager.

• Empire Roofing: Hires Luis Castro as a Sales Representative and Estimator.

• CureNet Research: Adds Sarah Webb as CFO. Webb will retain her role as Founder of Webb CFO. 

• NBT Financial: Adds Randall McCauley as Advisory Director. 

• Hanover Insurance Group: Honors Higginbotham with admission to its President’s Club and recognition as the Top Franchise Performer Award. 

• Astound Business Solutions: Adds Adam Kuehn as Enterprise Account Executive.

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