Semiconductor manufacturer Mobix Labs (Nasdaq: MOBX) has acquired RaGE Systems, a provider of radio frequency joint design and manufacturing services, as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of wireless communications offerings. Mobix Labs said Tuesday that Massachusetts-based RaGE Systems brings expertise in producing software and hardware produ...
BlueHalo has received a potential $95.4 million contract from the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command to develop a prototype of its directed energy system under the Laser technology Research Development and Optimization program. The company said Tuesday the contract was awarded through the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium. “W...
Scale AI, a San Francisco-based provider of data labeling services for artificial intelligence development and training, has raised $1 billion in a Series F funding round led by venture capital firm Accel. With a valuation of $13.8 billion, Scale AI aims to expand its capabilities and offerings by building on its existing AI model evaluation...
Shawn Purvis, president and CEO of the U.S. arm of QinetiQ, was handed her 2024 Wash100 Award by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the award, in a recent in-person meeting. This is Purvis’ fourth consecutive year being recognized in the highest tier of the government contracting industry, a rarified group that EM takes pri...
Accenture Federal Services has closed its purchase of Cognosante and launched a federal health portfolio to bring specialized mission platforms and services to customers to help them deliver better health outcomes. Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm said Monday more than 1,500 Cognosante employees will join the company’s workforce as a result o...
Dirk Wiker, chief cyber/zero trust architect for the federal business segment at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said federal agencies should leverage artificial intelligence tools to modernize threat detection and response and improve their cybersecurity posture. In an article published on Carahsoft.com, Wiker wrote that AI could enable agencies to...
The U.S. Air Force is getting serious about equipping its fleet with artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities amid an intensifying technological competition with China. In one of their most recent AI initiatives, the Air Force successfully tested an F-16 fighter jet equipped with an autonomous agent built by Shield AI. Curious about...
Joe Levy was named CEO of Sophos, where he has been working for nearly a decade– most recently as acting chief executive of the cybersecurity software company. Sophos said Monday Levy has almost three decades of experience in innovating and leading cybersecurity product development, services and companies, and nine years of his career were spe...
Identity security company CyberArk (Nasdaq: CYBR) will acquire machine identity management company Venafi from Thoma Bravo for an enterprise value of approximately $1 billion in cash and approximately $540 million in shares. CyberArk said Monday it plans to create a unified platform for end-to-end machine identity security by combining its identity ...
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 was signed into law at the end of 2023. Among its various mandates were that the Department of Defense cultivate private 5G networks at its service branch bases and outposts. These bases total around 800 globally, representing a clear opportunity for telecommunications providers to offer th...
