Government Executive Media Group has acquired 1105 Media’s Public Sector 360 group for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of decision-support tools and insights to defense, federal, state and local government markets. Troy Schneider, general manager of Public Sector 360, will join GovExec as GM of government technology b...
Federal agencies are embracing modern technology such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence to transform information technology systems in the digital age. When Jerry Ma assumed the directorship of emerging technologies in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, he vowed to streamline the processes in deploying and procuring advanced technol...
Rocket Lab USA started trading Wednesday on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “RKLB” after completing its merger with blank check company Vector Acquisition that was first announced in March. The transaction’s completion came days after shareholders at the Vector Capital-backed special purpose acquisition company approved the business combina...
Mark Baird, a retired Air Force brigadier general, has been named president of Virgin Orbit’s VOX Space subsidiary. He brings to the role over three decades of aerospace experience as VOX Space works to further advance the delivery of launch services in support of customers in the national security community, the company said Tuesday. “Mark...
Phantom Space has acquired Micro Aerospace Solutions for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to build up its mass manufacturing capabilities for satellites, propulsion systems, launch vehicles and other space transportation technologies. Melbourne, Florida-based MAS has been developing microsatellites, propulsion systems, thruster design, computer...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has been awarded a $960 million contract to provide hardware and software procurement services to the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center for the terminal segment of a joint service satellite communications system. The company will also conduct logistics and depot activation efforts for the Advanced Extremely High...
The senior official performing the duties of the U.S. Army undersecretary and the commanding general of Army Futures Command will respectively deliver opening and closing keynote speeches at the 6th Annual Army Forum hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to discuss the service branch’s modernization initiatives and the role of domestic industry ...
The U.S. Space Force has named ABL Space Systems, Astra Space and Relativity Space as the first on-ramp awardees on the Orbital Services Program-4 contract vehicle as part of efforts to expand the pool of vendors that could help launch payloads larger than 400 pounds to orbit within one to two years from task order...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its latest event on Wednesday to share the key trends impacting the government contractors in our sector and how to mature the capture process to grow a qualified pipeline and improve win rate during A Blueprint for a Modern, Data-Driven Approach to Capture Management Webinar. With Technomile’s Chief Operating Officer Mic...
Sheldon D’Paiva of VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Erik Pounds of NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) said their companies have partnered to come up with a platform meant to “democratize” access of agencies and other organizations to artificial intelligence by enabling them to layer the technology into their existing information technology environments. They said th...
