In-Q-Tel, the intelligence community’s venture capital arm, has made a strategic investment in Sydney-based control engineering software provider Q-CTRL to help the latter speed up the development of quantum technology platforms in support of national security missions.

Palantir Technologies confidentially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a draft registration statement for its planned public listing.

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) plans to exercise its call option to fully acquire Vricon, a 3D data and analytics company, for approximately $140M as part of efforts to advance growth initiatives in Earth intelligence and 3D technology markets.

Palantir Technologies, a big data analytics company headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., plans to file an initial public offering in the coming weeks in preparation for a possible debut on the stock market by the fall, Bloomberg reported Friday.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Chuck Prow, president and CEO of Vectrus, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for leading the company to drive company growth through big contract awards, acquisition and continued excellence in the government contracting (GovCon) sector. This marks the sixth-time that Prow has won a Wash100 Award in the seven years of the award’s history.

Executive Mosaic is happy to present Tim Reardon, chief executive officer of Constellis, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for realigning the company’s executive team and driving growth for Constellis while adding to its portfolio. 

Cybersecurity company Kasada has raised $7M from In-Q-Tel and other investors in a Series A funding round meant to further develop and facilitate the delivery of a platform designed to protect organizations from malicious bot attacks.

Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence and a 2019 Wash100 winner, will leave her post on Aug. 15, NBC News reported Friday.

Teresa Shea, formerly executive vice president of technology at In-Q-Tel, has joined Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) as VP of cyber warfare and mission innovations within the intelligence, information and services business. She will report to John DeSimone, VP of cybersecurity and special missions at Raytheon IIS, and lead the integration of …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 27, 2018 — AECOM (NYSE: ACM) has secured the top position in a ranking of supplier diversity programs for 2019 in recognition of its work with veteran-owned businesses, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 11. The company said Dec. 10 its No. 1 rank in Viqtory‘s 2019 Military Friendly Supplier Diversity …