U.S. space agencies are prioritizing “integration by design” with mission partners, industry, academia and allied forces to tackle threats and deter adversaries in the largest and most highly contested domain today. Gen. James Dickinson, commander of the U.S. Space Command said the “partnered element” of the command’s approach to mission o...
In a recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Rob Lalumondier, vice president of federal business at Sophos, to discuss his strategic goals for 2022 and the five core values that reflect the company’s government-industry partnerships. He also talked about artificial intelligence, 5G, cloud and other technology trends and h...
Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) will provide software development, engineering and data science support for the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center under a potential five-year, $241 million basic ordering agreement. Maxar said Wednesday it secured a spot on the BOA, which also covers architecture, standards and analysis se...
The Department of Energy has awarded $53 million to multiple small businesses to develop clean energy materials and systems in support of the Biden administration’s net-zero emission goals. DOE said Wednesday it will issue the funds through the department’s Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program...
Byron Bright, president of the government solutions business at KBR, recently received his 2022 Wash100 Award, the highest honor in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership in driving KBR’s military technology engineering, development, support and sustainment efforts in areas such as space, cyber and data anal...
Barry Duplantis, vice president and genera manager of North America Public Sector business at Mattermost, recently spoke with GovCon Wire regarding Mattermost’s key markets of interest and how the company’s offerings are relevant to the public sector. In addition, Duplantis discussed the federal government’s communication tools consideration...
DC Capital Partners Management has made an investment in Valkyrie Enterprises and will combine the latter with the private equity firm’s portfolio company Hill Technical Solutions. Valkyrie has over 700 engineers, industry specialists and technical professionals who provide support to diplomatic and security missions at the Department of Defen...
Sigma Defense has acquired Sub U Systems for an undisclosed sum to expand technology offerings intended for tactical networking and communications. The combined company plans to offer a common hardware platform with software applications that support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance relay, analytics, artificial intelligence and edge com...
The Defense Health Agency has awarded 56 positions on a potential 10-year, $10 billion contract vehicle for services supporting military medical research and development programs. DHA received a total of 126 proposals from 61 offerors for the OMNIBUS IV multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via SAM.gov, the Department of D...
Global investment firm Carlyle (Nasdaq: CG) has agreed to acquire ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) in an all-cash transaction worth approximately $4.2 billion. ManTech’s board of directors unanimously approved the transaction that is expected to conclude in the second half of calendar year 2022, subject to ManTech shareholders’ approval, reg...
