Granicus has acquired GovQA for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to help government agency clients manage requests for public records and expand the capabilities of its Civic Engagement Platform designed to provide unified digital experiences to citizens. Woodridge, Illinois-based GovQA provides cloud-based automated workflow software meant to ...
President Joe Biden and representatives from the commercial and education sectors discussed commitments and initiatives to counter cybersecurity threats at a meeting held Wednesday at the White House. The Biden administration has expanded the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to include natural gas pipelines and announced a Nationa...
Dignari, an Alexandria, Virginia-based woman-owned small business, has won a potential five-year, $99 million blanket purchase agreement to provide the Department of Homeland Security with identity, credential and access management support services. The company said Wednesday it will deliver program and program management, engineering and program op...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Dr. Reggie Brothers, BigBear.ai’s CEO, 2021 Wash100 Award recipient and GovCon Expert, about the merger with GigCapital4 that will form BigBear, Inc. and take the company public, the partnership with UAV Factory, the advancement of artificial intelligence and emerging techno...
ManTech (Nasdaq: MANT) has secured a five-year, $86 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to architect and engineer information technology systems for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The company said Wednesday it will also provide analytic services to USCIS and help the agency expand applications from the Support f...
VTG has purchased Manassas, Virginia-based undersea warfare and unmanned system developer ASSETT in a deal that brings artificial technology applications to the former’s portfolio of naval systems. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquired company will function as a center of excellence for product development within the ...
Rocket Lab USA started trading Wednesday on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “RKLB” after completing its merger with blank check company Vector Acquisition that was first announced in March. The transaction’s completion came days after shareholders at the Vector Capital-backed special purpose acquisition company approved the business combina...
The State Department has named Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) as principal contractor on a potential $350 million foreign military sale of defense services to Australia, in preparation for future orders of company-built Standard Missile systems and associated equipment. Raytheon would develop, engineer, integrate and test SM-6 Block I and SM-2 Bl...
Arlington Capital Partners has agreed to acquire McLean, Virginia-based integrated program management service provider MCR for an undisclosed sum as the private equity firm is looking to increase investment in the systems engineering and integration areas. ACP said Monday that Sheppard Mullin acted as the acquirer’s legal adviser while Houliha...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will continue to help the Indian air force maintain Super Hercules tactical airlifters under a five-year, $328.8 million direct commercial sale contract. The follow-on agreement includes program management, engineering and logistics support, contractor furnished equipment, software and publication services necessary to ad...
