Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) will develop a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to support research and development work on renewable power. The supercomputer called Kestrel will support energy programs related to security, storage, community transitions, energy justice, systems integrati...
Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR) has closed its approximately $161.2 million cash-and-stock purchase of exactEarth, a provider of satellite data products and services to the global maritime sector. Vienna, Virginia-based Spire first announced the deal in September, which marks its first acquisition after going public in mid-August, and the company said Tue...
President Joe Biden has nominated William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper Laboratory and a national security leader, to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense. LaPlante has nearly 40 years of experience in the defense industrial base, acquisition, technology and sustainment, the White House said Tu...
Brian Reed, chief mobility officer at NowSecure, said government agencies should have programs in place to facilitate continuous monitoring of mobile applications to detect and address vulnerabilities that could pose security risks to employees and data. Reed wrote that agencies should commit to ensuring the security of mobile apps and establish mis...
Carolyn Duby, field chief technology officer and cybersecurity lead at Cloudera, said government agencies seeking to protect their systems from cyberattacks should recognize the importance of data and adopt artificial intelligence to glean insights from collected data. “AI speeds analysis and is particularly effective when agencies move from signa...
A partnership between Amentum and Fluor (NYSE: FLR) has won a potential $28 billion contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration to manage and operate the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant in Texas. The 10-year contract to Nuclear Production One covers a five-year base period of performance and five one-y...
Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has purchased radio frequency modules manufacturer Atlanta Micro as part of efforts to expand its presence in the radar, electronic warfare and weapons markets. Atlanta Micro is a Norcross, Georgia-based maker of high-performance RF modules, monolithic microwave integrated circuits and related components, Mercury Syste...
Aerospace distribution company FDH Aero has purchased Unical Defense, a California-headquartered provider of aftermarket parts and logistics support to military customers. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and FDH Aero said Monday the transaction marks its eighth completed acquisition since it became a portfolio company of Audax Private...
A new McAleese & Associates report says major defense prime contractors recorded a 4 percent to 6 percent increase in sector profit during the third quarter of 2021. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, presented an analysis of the Q3 financial performance of Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYS...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will provide six more MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters to U.S. Special Operations Command under a $212.6 million delivery order modification. The company will also provide eight spare shipsets to SOCOM for the remanufactured rotary-wing military aircraft, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. In a separate statement, Boeing ...
