BlackSky Holdings, a Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial intelligence provider, has received an equity investment from Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) to enable it to meet the customers’ demand for global monitoring services and further expand its capabilities. BlackSky said Wednesday it will also broaden the delivery of deep analytics and high-...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has secured a potential 10-year, $2 billion contract from the National Security Agency to provide high performance computing technology as a service to help NSA address its data management requirements. HPE will deliver fully managed cloud services on-premises through the HPE GreenLake platform to enable NSA to...
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo completed its $12.3 billion acquisition of Proofpoint more than one month after the cybersecurity company’s shareholders approved the all-cash transaction. Proofpoint said Tuesday the deal completion signaled its transition from a publicly traded company to a private ownership structure. Gary Steele, Chairman an...
Government Executive Media Group has acquired 1105 Media’s Public Sector 360 group for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of decision-support tools and insights to defense, federal, state and local government markets. Troy Schneider, general manager of Public Sector 360, will join GovExec as GM of government technology b...
Eight companies have secured positions on a $2 billion contract vehicle to support the U.S. Air Force’s infrastructure design and construction missions stateside. The Air Force Civil Engineer Center determined the awardees for Pool 3 of the Architect-Engineer Next program through a competitive acquisition process reserved for small businesses,...
A Noblis subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $187.46 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide research, program management, systems engineering and end-to-end system design support for the service’s command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. Noblis MSD will also provide integratio...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, estimates 4 percent to 7 percent growth in overall second quarter sales among defense primes. His analysis of contractor Q2 results covered Boeing (NYSE: BA), BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), L3Harris Technologies (NY...
The service division of Fairbanks Morse Defense has secured $230 million in contracts to help Military Sealift Command maintain various ship classes and to repair emergency diesel generators for U.S. Navy submarines. A potential five-year $170 million contract with MSC will include technical support for command platforms such as T-AKR vehicle cargo ...
David Joyce, an an aerospace industry veteran, has joined the board of directors of Boeing (NYSE: BA). Joyce will serve on aerospace safety and compensation committees as a member of Boeing’s board, the company said Tuesday. His four-decade career at General Electric (NYSE: GE) included time as vice chair, president and CEO of GE Aviation...
An MWH Constructors business was awarded a potential $93.8 million contract for fabrication and installation of multiple enclosures at the U.S. Navy’s Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Under the firm-fixed-price contract, Methuen Construction will build the PNS Dry Dock Two complex that will have both permanent and relocatable enclo...
