Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received an initial task order under a potential five-year, $90 million blanket purchase agreement to help the Department of Health and Human Services implement an information technology platform for processing business data. The multimillion-dollar task order is part of HHS’ Solutioning with Holistic Ana...
Enveil has raised $25 million in a round of Series B financing led by USAA and will use the capital in the development, sales and marketing of a privacy-enhancing technology designed for government and commercial applications. Existing investors that participated in the funding round include Bloomberg Beta, Mastercard, C5 Capital, Capital One Ventur...
Al Tadros, a more than three-decade space industry veteran, has assumed the chief technology officer post at Redwire (NYSE: RDW), succeeding Michael Snyder, who will now serve as technical fellow at the Florida-based aerospace manufacturer and space infrastructure technology company. Redwire said Tuesday Tadros’ transition from his recent role...
Jonathan Sholtis, a 15-year professional services industry veteran, has been appointed executive vice president of the defense and intelligence group at CollabraLink Technologies. In his new role, Sholtis will lead the development and delivery of information technology modernization services to defense and intelligence community customers, the digit...
Momentus (Nasdaq: MNTS), a San Jose, California-based provider of in-space transportation and infrastructure services, has announced the appointment of aerospace industry veterans Charles Chase, Nick Zello and Gary Bartmann to vice president positions. Chase and Zello will respectively serve as VP of engineering and VP of operations, while Bartmann ...
Emcore (Nasdaq: EMKR) has completed its acquisition of the space and navigation unit of L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) for approximately $5 million in cash. The transaction, which was first announced in February, covers intellectual property and outstanding assets and liabilities of the L3Harris business segment including a leased facility in Bud...
For the Social Security Administration, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 was the impetus for a much-needed digital transformation that has ushered the agency into a new era of speed, accuracy and efficiency. During his keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual CIO Summit, Sean Brune, SSA’s chief information o...
NASA has awarded approximately $95 million in contracts to 110 small businesses to continue to develop technologies as part of the second phase of a program meant to support space exploration, aerospace ecosystem and other missions. Each Phase II awardees under the Small Business Innovation Research program will get up to $750,000 to build and...
In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Bill Downer, vice president of national programs for the government solutions business of Seagate, to talk about the U.S. initiatives to rebuild and strengthen its manufacturing sector, including the use of robotics, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies to address ...
Leonardo DRS and Teledyne FLIR have won separate contracts worth $1.08 billion combined to manufacture thermal imaging systems designed for soldiers’ target acquisition and engagement operations. Army Contracting Command received four bids for the military branch’s Family of Weapon Sight-Individual program and expects the two vendors to ...
