KBR has won a potential five-year, $350 million contract from the U.S. Geological Survey to provide technical support services for the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science, or EROS, Center. According to an award notice published Friday on SAM.gov, the performance period of the USGS EROS indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will k...
Castelion, a defense technology company, has secured $350 million in Series B financing to support the development of its first hypersonic weapon, called Blackbeard, and the construction of its production and final-assembly facility, Project Ranger. Altimeter Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the funding round, with Andreessen Horowitz, Av...
SAIC reported $1.87 billion in fiscal year 2026 third-quarter revenue, down 5.6 percent from the same period the previous year, and $2.2 billion in Q3 net bookings with a trailing 12 months book-to-bill ratio of 1.2. In an earnings statement published Thursday, the Reston, Virginia-based government technology services contractor said it ended the th...
Brian Meyer, federal field chief technology officer at Axonius Federal, said cybersecurity asset management could help government agencies make dozens of security tools work together and strengthen the enforcement of security policies. Cybersecurity asset management “acts as the connective tissue by aggregating data from all the tools, normali...
The Department of War has issued a request for information to gather industry feedback on its plan to produce small unmanned aerial systems capable of carrying out one-way attack missions. What Is the Drone Dominance Program? The program, called Drone Dominance, is designed to provide U.S. producers opportunities to demonstrate the ability to manufa...
By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International Federal agencies and their industry counterparts are moving at a breakneck pace to modernize in this fast-changing digital world. Artificial intelligence, automation, behavioral analytics, and autonomous decision systems have become integral to mission-critical operations. This includes e...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded 1,014 companies positions on the new Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense contract, a potential 10-year, $151 billion vehicle for the Golden Dome multi-layer missile defense architecture. The first tranche of staggered awards establishes the competitive pool while the agency continues discuss...
David Shedd, former deputy director and acting director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Andrew Badger, a former case officer at DIA, have released the book “The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets,” offering a detailed expose of China’s alleged state-sponsored theft of Western technolog...
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, or TIP, has introduced a public data platform designed to provide insights into how NSF allocates funding across emerging technology areas. In the first part of this two-part series published in August, Ann Gabriel, senior vice president for global strat...
Peerless Technologies has acquired Maryland-based defense contractor QED Systems. Peerless said in a LinkedIn post Monday that the acquisition is part of its effort to expand its capabilities to better support military customers. “Together, Peerless and QED offer expanded capabilities and stronger mission support to our warfighters,” sta...
