General Atomics and the Department of Energy have completed negotiations regarding a financial award for an industry team to build a rare earth element separation and processing facility. The company said Thursday its electromagnetic systems business will lead the team that will construct and operate the REE demonstration factory as part of the 40-m...
Sigma Defense Systems has won a five-year, $250 million contract from the General Services Administration to help the Department of Defense process and distribute sensor data across site-level installations. The company said Thursday it will assist DOD in efforts to install data centers and ground entry points and gateways used to collect data from ...
Tomorrow.io, a startup developing radar-equipped satellites for weather and climate forecasting, has agreed to merge with special purpose acquisition company Pine Technology in a deal both parties expect to close in the first half of 2022. The boards of directors at the two companies have approved the transaction that would take Boston-based Tomorro...
The U.S. Space Force has released a request for proposals for a potential $99.57 million contract to provide repair, maintenance and modernization support for aging facilities, real property and equipment in support of Western Range operations, tests and launch missions at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Launch Operations Support Cont...
Mo Hessabi, former senior vice president for growth at MetroStar, has been named chief operating officer of the Reston, Virginia-based digital services and management consulting company. He oversees the firm’s growth operations that include capture, proposal and business development functions, according to his official bio on MetroStar’s...
Conrad Symber, a Sehlke Consulting partner, will take on a new role as senior vice president of growth and strategy for the newly formed company Aeyon, effective Jan. 1. The appointment comes after the merger between Enlightenment Capital-backed Artlin Consulting and Sehlke to create a new professional services provider known as Aeyon. In his new...
Systems Engineering Associates Corp. has acquired Analysis, Design and Diagnostics through a private transaction that will add acoustic collection and processing technologies to SEACORP’s electronic warfare hardware business. The deal comes more than eight months after ECS Federal founder and Kapco Holdings CEO Roy Kapani purchased SEACORP. AD...
Satellite imagery and geospatial data provider Planet Labs began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday after completion of its merger with special purpose acquisition company dMY Technology Group and registered the combined entity as a public benefit corporation. Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) said Wednesday it intends to use the $590 million...
CEOs from six cryptocurrency companies testified before the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday calling on Congress to come up with clearer and bespoke regulations on the virtual currency, Reuters reported. “Without tailored legislative solutions that are openly debated with public participation, the United States risks unnecessarily ...
BigBear.ai has completed its merger with special purpose acquisition company GigCapital4 to create a new entity that will trade on the New York Stock Exchange starting Wednesday and help customers make decisions with the use of artificial intelligence technology. The combined business will operate as BigBear.ai Holdings and the transaction gives it ...
