Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has wrapped up its acquisition of Slack Technologies for approximately $27.7 billion in a transaction that will create a single digital platform for enterprise communications and collaboration. “Together we’ll define the future of enterprise software, creating the digital HQ that enables every organization to deliver custo...
The General Services Administration’s 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology support has received the “best-in-class” status for meeting the Office of Management and Budget’s performance standard for category management. “The 8(a) STARS GWAC program r...
Tracker Capital Management has acquired a controlling interest in Accion Systems, a Boston-based startup developing ionic liquid electrospray propulsion technology designed to power satellites and space vehicles. Accion said Wednesday it has also closed on a $42 million Series C funding round that was led by a Tracker Capital affiliate and gave the ...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue manufacturing air and missile defense radar systems for installation on U.S. Navy ships under a potential $781 million contract modification. This award for AN/SPY-6(V) integration and production support services has a $67.7 million face value and will reach the ceiling amount if the military branch ex...
Jeff Shockey, most recently vice president of global sales and marketing for Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, has been appointed senior vice president of global government relations at Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX). Shockey will succeed Timothy McBride, who will formally depart his role later this year, and will co...
Brian Hale, formerly assistant director of the office of public affairs at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., has joined Tysons, Virginia-based cloud-native risk analytics platforms provider QOMPLX as vice president for global market development and public private partnerships. He will oversee outreach efforts to form partnerships in key markets,...
The space defense sector continues to grow in response to foreign adversaries’ anti-satellite and space-based weaponry developments. The Department of Defense (DOD) is committed to rapidly developing and deploying robust space intelligence sensors that will supply military leaders with information supremacy and warfighters with tactical advantages...
The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded three companies a $49.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to conduct research and development of digital signal processing systems. Black River Systems, North Point Defense and Geon Technologies will compete for cost-plus-fixed-fee or firm-fixed-price orders to provide military per...
Google Cloud and the U.S. Air Force’s Rapid Sustainment Office have agreed to jointly develop a technology ecosystem that will use company-built computing platforms to support aviation sustainment work at the service branch. The partnership intends to incorporate Google’s Apigee application programming interface management tool and Antho...
Momentus has appointed former executives at the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to serve on the board of directors for the publicly traded space infrastructure services company that will result from Momentus’ planned merger with Stable Road Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SRAC). Kimb...
