Tyto Athene, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, has completed its purchase of managed cybersecurity services provider MindPoint Group and appointed MindPoint President Patti Chanthaphone as head of its federal civilian group. Herndon, Virginia-based Tyto Athene said Tuesday Chanthaphone will oversee the company’s federal soluti...
By Kevin Plexico, Senior Vice President of Information Solutions at Deltek Government contracting isn’t getting any less challenging in 2024. With a more competitive environment at the U.S. federal, state and local levels, as well as in Canada, combined with uncertainty about budgets and questions about the upcoming election, there are more questi...
Oshkosh’s (NYSE: OSK) defense arm has secured $231.9 million in orders from the U.S. Army to produce modernized heavy tactical vehicles and supply related kits to the military branch. Oshkosh Defense said Monday it will provide new Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck or HEMTT A4 tankers, Palletized Load System A1s, cargos, wreckers, load handli...
BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business has secured a $579.3 million contract to manufacture and deliver M109A7 and M992A3 vehicles and fielding kits to the U.S. Army. The Department of Defense said BAE Systems Land and Armaments will perform work under the cost-no-fee contract at its York, Pennsylvania location and in Sterling Heights, Michi...
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command has added Blue Origin and Stoke Space Technologies to the vendor pool of launch providers as part of the second on-ramping process to the fourth iteration of the Orbital Services Program. SSC said Wednesday OSP-4 is a potential $986 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with an or...
Cybersecurity company SIXGEN has acquired Secure Enterprise Engineering as part of a push to expand its software offerings, client relationships and technical talent needed to accelerate the delivery of cyber capabilities to digital warfighters in support of national security missions. SIXGEN said Tuesday it expects the acquisition to expand its sof...
Mastodon Design, a CACI International (NYSE: CACI) company, has secured an approximately $100 million contract to produce a manpack version of the U.S. Army’s Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team platform. Army Contracting Command is the contracting activity and will determine work locations and funding upon the issuance of individual ...
The Fiscal Year 2025 Defense Appropriations Act, which provides a total discretionary allocation of $833.053 billion, cleared the House on Friday with a 217-198 vote. “This FY25 Defense bill ensures our defenders are equipped, trained, and prepared to protect the United States,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Ok., sa...
Institute for Defense Analyses has secured a potential five-year, $1.42 billion contract from the Washington Headquarters Services to provide research, analyses, test and evaluation support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, combatant commands and defense agencies. The company will help maintain a comprehensive evaluation of...
DZYNE Technologies has acquired High Point Aerotechnologies for an undisclosed sum to expand its portfolio of air defense technology platforms with the addition of counter-uncrewed autonomous system capabilities. High Point CEO Al White will join DZYNE as executive vice president of air defense technologies with oversight of the C-UAS business, the ...
