Westminster, Colorado-based Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) has acquired Wovenware, an artificial intelligence and software development company, for an undisclosed sum as part of a push to expand its AI, 3D data production, software engineering and machine learning capabilities. Wovenware Co-Founders Christian Gonzalez and Carlos Melendez will conti...
Amy Rall, formerly a senior vice president at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been named president of the federal group at digital transformation services provider DMI. She will manage the Bethesda, Maryland-headquartered company’s portfolio of service offerings for federal civilian, defense, health and national secu...
Global supply chain issues have significantly impacted the government contracting ecosystem in recent years, calling attention to the need for speed in federal acquisition, procurement and manufacturing processes. Kicking off GovCon Wire’s 3rd Annual Defense Digital Acquisition and Innovation Forum, Lt. Gen. David Bassett illustrated the...
Baird will host its highly anticipated 2022 Government & Defense Conference on Thursday, Nov. 17th featuring heavyweight executives to the government contracting (GovCon) community as well as current and former government officials who will discuss a wide range of critical topics, including intelligence, space and defense challenges and top...
DMI, a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners, has purchased digital transformation services provider The Ambit Group in a transaction aimed to grow DMI’s portfolio of clients, service offerings and contract vehicles as well as broaden its presence in the defense and federal civilian markets. “With this addition, we combine Ambit’s c...
Over the last couple of years, workforce shifts due in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic have hastened the transition from hardware and software-based procurement processes to cloud-stored models. Since many government workers started to work from home in (relatively) recent times, agencies began to look toward doing business through cloud-based, ...
Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing business and Project Kuiper, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and SpiderOak Mission Systems have received contracts for the second phase of a Defense Innovation Unit project that seeks to demonstrate a hybrid architecture that would connect ground communications systems to satellite networks. The Hybrid Space Archit...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) saw its third quarter revenue for fiscal year 2022 jump 19 percent to $1.13 billion and attributed the sales growth to ramp-up of contract work and increased hiring activity. The Centreville, Virginia-based contractor said Wednesday it posted $1.3 billion in Q3 2022 net bookings with a book-to-bill ratio of 1.1x and ended...
KeyLogic Systems, an information technology company in West Virginia, has won a Department of Energy contract worth nearly $100 million to provide strategic analysis support services to the National Energy Technology Laboratory. DOE announced the award of the cost-plus-award-fee contract in a notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov. Work covers sup...
It is fairly common knowledge that the defense industry has historically lagged behind the technological progress of the private sector. This is largely due to the intentional stance of allowing citizens to be the first adopters of new technologies while those in the defense sphere take a “wait and see” approach. This strategy ensures that...
