Raytheon, an RTX business, has received a potential $212.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide operations and maintenance services for a relocatable over-the-horizon radar, or ROTHR, supporting the Forces Surveillance Support Center in Chesapeake, Virginia. Initiatives like the Navy’s ROTHR program underscore the service&...
The Potomac Officers Club is honored to announce that Robert Hayes, acting chief artificial intelligence officer at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, is joining an elite lineup of speakers at the 2026 Artificial Intelligence Summit happening this Wednesday. Hayes will sit down with Amos Snead, founder and CEO of The Dux Group, for a fi...
Motorola Solutions has acquired Exacom, a provider of cloud-native recording and logging technology used to capture 911 calls and radio communications, to strengthen its command center software and digital evidence management capabilities for public safety agencies. What Capabilities Does Exacom Provide? Motorola said Thursday Exacom’s offerin...
The General Services Administration has awarded 48 vendors positions on the women-owned small business, or WOSB, pool of the Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract, or GWAC, for IT products and services. The latest round of awards under a governmentwide IT contract vehicle underscores the continued demand for agile, high-performing techno...
IT and supply chain platforms provider C5MI has appointed Deven Joshi, a digital transformation leader, as chief artificial intelligence officer. The latest CAIO appointment at C5MI reflects the growing emphasis federal contractors are placing on disciplined, results-driven AI adoption — a theme expected to remain a major focus across the GovCon c...
TechnoMile has appointed longtime federal technology journalist and broadcaster Tom Temin as strategic media adviser and announced the launch of a new interview series focused on issues shaping the government contracting and federal technology landscape. In a press release sent to GovCon Wire, the company said Temin will host “Federal Market F...
Defense Unicorns has raised $136 million in Series B funding and reached a valuation exceeding $1 billion. How Will Defense Unicorns Use the Funding? The San Antonio, Texas-based company said Tuesday that the capital will support further development of Unicorn Delivery Service, or UDS, a portable, airgap-native runtime platform for packaging, deploy...
A report by financial services company Raymond James reveals that 125 mergers and acquisitions took place in the defense and government market during the third quarter of 2025, a 30 percent increase from the same period the previous year. The November report was issued by Raymond James’ defense and government team, where Sam Maness, a...
Darktrace is expanding its executive committee with the appointments of Suman Raju as chief financial officer and Hein Hellemons as chief revenue officer. Raju and Hellemons will report to Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, the company said Monday. “I’m thrilled to welcome Suman and Hein to the executive team,” Popel...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on July 4, delivers an unprecedented $190.6 billion to the Department of Homeland Security and its components—doubling DHS’ near-term resources and creating one of the most expansive multi-year acquisition runways in its history. Most of the money is available through fiscal 2029, set...
